PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Memory Span, Autobiographical Memory, Task Analysis
29 Oct 2013
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Chapter 9: cognitive development: the information processing approach. Information processing approach views humans as possessing an array of cognitive processes that help them to understand and make use of the information they get from their experiences in the world. Neo-piagetian approach proposes that the stage-related changes that piaget described are brought about by changes in the ways children process information. Primary of human mind is its flexibility thinking can be adapted to many situations. >however, two limitations exist: the amount of info that it can process at one tim and the speed w which it can process info. 1: thinking is information processing mental activity involves taking information into the mind and operating on it in ways that make is usable. 2: there are mechanisms or processes of change that underlie the processing of information w development, children become better able to represent or encode information in their minds, and this mechanisms helps them solve problems more effectively.
