PSYC2010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Inhibition, Attention Span, Frontal Lobe
15 Mar 2016
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Information-processing (ip)- how we process information; mechanism of change. Ip- the major perspective in cognitive development in the last 50+ years. Ip approach: humans are information-processing systems like computers. We have hardware (storage capacity and processing speed) and software (processes, strategies). The mind/brain does not work like a computer. Yet the concepts and terminology of the computer have been applied to cognition. Input must go through this system of stores in serial fashion. Most i-p theories are based on the atkinson-shiffrin multistore model (1968)- originally a generally theory of ip (but recently modified for children) Originally a theory of memory- we store info in 3 parts of the mental system for processing. The 3 processing systems or stores (hardware) include: In each store, mental strategies (software) can be used to manipulate the information: sensory register. Sights and sounds represented directly and briefly (fractions of a second) Sperling"s partial report procedure: short-term memory (working memory)
