PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Recognition Memory, Long-Term Memory, Dishabituation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Lecture 8 cognitive development: the information-processing approach. Information-processing view: considers the psychological activities that allow children to deal with new information, 2 different methods flowchart and computer methods. The information-processing view can be modeled using: the flowchart. Specifies an input and output, with processing in between. You receive some sort of information and something comes out, while something happens in your brain to allow you to process it. Processing: (cid:498)i"m too tired to get up(cid:499) Output: i hit snooze: the computer. Starts with input, has programmed conversions, and has multiple outputs (many ways to respond to the situation) Based on life experience and abilities, lots of different things can happen, and you can make different decisions on different days. Children don"t process language through tv, but they do. Different people can experience the same situation differently because it is determined by how you process the information in your short-term memory.