PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metacognition, Working Memory, Memory Span
23 Jan 2017
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Hardware: our ability to process information is only as good as our hardware is. *cognitive ability and academic achievement does not match. Model of the flow of information in thinking. Information flows through three main stores: environmental input. Anything from the environment that comes in to our conscious awareness: sensory store. Just because something gets recorded, if conscious awareness is not directed to that it will not move into short-term memory: short-term store (cid:498)working memory(cid:499) Executes operations on information: long-term store. Metacognition: one stage above cognition, ability to think about what you are thinking and monitor the. Metacgonition knowledge about one"s cognitive abilities. Executive control the processes involved in planning and monitoring what you attend to and what you do with this input quality of that response. Cold functions: planning, organizing materials, setting goals, monitoring behavior. Memory span for digits increases with age, and then decreases again after a certain adult age: span of apprehension.
