DEP 3053 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Information Processing

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: DEP 3053
• Professor: Klimenko Marina

Document Summary

Chapter 6 textbook notes information processing approaches- to cognitive development that seek to identify ways individuals take in, use, and store information. Automatization- degree to which activity requires attention. Cognitive architecture- basic structures of information processing. Information sensory store short-term memory long-term memory (initial, momentary instantaneous storage) from memory store worked on) (15-25 sec, selected input performance memory tasks included with age, rehearsal permits transfer short/long-term memory. Metamemory= understanding about processes that underlie memory, which emerges and improves during middle childhood. Early adulthood , adult memory at peak. Mneumonics= formal strategies organizing material in ways make it more likely to be remembered critical thinking- make use of cognitive skills and strategies that include likelihood of solving problems, forming inferences making decisions, appropriately and successfully. Information-processing perspective proven fruitful in offering explanations of cognitive phenomena and suggesting additional research through its generation of testable hypotheses.