PSYC 2500H Chapter Notes - Chapter module 7: Compensatory Education, Inductive Reasoning, Infor

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500H
• Professor: Patricia Kloosterman

Document Summary

Chapter 9 cognitive development: information-processing perspectives and connectionisms. They are volatile and soon disappear: short-term store (sts): second information-processing store, in which stimuli are retained for several seconds and operated upan (also called working memory). It can store limited amount of information for several seconds. It can hold a telephone number for you to dial. All conscious intellectual activity is thought to take place here. Your impressions of past experiences and events and the strategies used to solve problem: execurive control processes: the process involved in regulating attention and determining what to do with the information just gathered or retrieved from long-term memory. This is what distinguish us from computers, we have the ability to distinguish information, organize and monitor ouw own cognitive abilities: metacognition: k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e a(cid:271)ilities a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses (cid:396)elated to thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g. This tests are so reliable that they are ofter used as one indication of geneteral intelligence.