Information Processing

Question 1

Information processing

Answer 1

• child/brain as computer (processory of information)
• focus on mechanisms
• task analysis = breaking into smaller components to understand children’s failure/points of development
• components: cognitive processes, actions

Question 2

basic processes

Answer 2

• attending
• encoding
• recognizing
• retrieving

Question 3

working memory

Answer 3

• a temporary memory storage that contains items you are actively attending to
• maintains information relevant to a task (from multiple sources), until work is done
• limited capacity

Question 4

long term memory

Answer 4

accessed by retrieval

Question 5

executive functioning (central executive)

Answer 5

• selects what we need from long term memory
• strategy selection & flexibility
• inhibition of behavior

Question 6

Task analysis: Piaget’s object permenance task

Answer 6

• breaking task into smaller steps
• includes the cognitive processes required to understand children’ts failure/points of development

Question 7

mechanisms of development

Answer 7

1. improvement in basic processes, from: increased processing speed from myelination and increased connectivity among the brain regions; experience -> the more times you see something = increased speed
2. strategies such as rehearsal, selective attention (instruction, discovery)
3. content knowledge (experience) -> the more you know about a topic the better you are at memorizing info in that topic

Question 8

rehearsal

Answer 8

repeating whatever we are trying to remeber
not born with this strategy

Question 9

selective attention

Answer 9

attend to the things that are relevant to remeber