PSY210H5 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Cognitive development.docx
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What are the basic assumptions of the information processing approach: thinking is information processing, mechanisms of change underlie info processing, with development, children are better able to represent or encode info in their minds and this mechanism helps them solve problems more effectively, self modifying process, a child will use the strategies she has acquired from earlier problem solutions to modify her responses to a new problem, role of analysis/careful task analysis, the task or problem situation itself influences the child"s cognitive performance, it often involves error analysis. What are the different cognitive processes: encoding/representation, encoding the transformation of info from the enviro into a mental representation (verbal/pictorial, strategies, conscious cognitive or behavioural activities that one used to enhance metal performance, automation, the process of turning conscious, controlled behaviours into unconscious and automatic ones, generalization, the application of a strategy learned while solving a problem in a new situation.
