PSYC 3210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Connectionism, Theory Of Forms, Syntactic Bootstrapping
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Chapter 4 theories of cognitive development9/17/2014 6:34:00 pm. Information-processing theories: a class of theories that focus on the structure of the cognitive system and the mental activities used to deploy attention and memory to solve problems. Distinctive features: specification of thinking processes, emphasis on structure of thinking, task analysis. What"s involved in solving that problem and doing that action: continuous cognitive change. David klahr information-processing theorist: task analysis: the research technique of identifying goals, relevant information in the environment, and potential processing strategies for a problem. Helps researchers understand and predict children"s behavior and allow them to rigorously test precise hypotheses regarding how development occurs. How they think about a task being a multitude of things happening. Whereas in the piagetian theory, it"s just one step-by-step task: view of children"s nature. The child as a limited-capacity processing system. Some theorists draw comparisons between the information processing of computers and that of humans.
