PSYC 2076 Chapter : Chapter 7
Document Summary
The basics of information processing: gain more capacity, speed, and efficiency, but also more insight into how our brains work. Information processing approaches seek to identify the ways individuals take in, use, and store information. Here, theorists believe more in quantitative change piaget thought children thought differently from one stage of development to the next. Information processing approach is more about the changing capacities of individuals as we develop. Foundations of information processing approach: encoding changing incoming info into usable form, storage maintaining encoded info, retrieval - bring stored memories into consciousness. Automatization degree to which a process requires attention: ex: driving a car difficult at first, now fairly automatic. One of the automatic processes available to infants and children is noticing how often stimuli go together. This allows them to develop concepts categorizations of people, objects, or events that share common properties. We even automatically process some basic math concepts.
