CPSY 4343 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Mendelian Inheritance, Social Cognition
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What is cognitive development: cross-sectional comparison: contrasts between different individuals at different ages. Some differences may be individual: longitudinal comparison: contrasts between the same individual at different ages, cognitive development: the study of how cognition changes in predictable, age-related ways over the course of infancy through adolescence. Cognition: the processes by which an individual acquires, stores, manipulates, retrieves, and uses information. Much if not all of the information we acquire from the world initially arrives through one of our senses. The act of recognizing the parts of a visual scene requires perception: attention: the ability to allocate mental resources to certain tasks. Need to focus and concentrate to complete a complicated cognitive task. May need to ignore or shut out distractions. Practice effect: the decrease in the amount of mental effort functions of language. Automatic process: cognitive processes that are carried out with minimal mental resources.
