101682 Lecture 8: Information processing and moral reasoning development
25 Feb 2019
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Week 8 (week 8) information processing and moral reasoning development. Storage limitations: may not be able to retain information in working memory. Focus only on chosen stimuli and filter out irrelevant stimuli: central-incidental memory tasks have been used to measure selective attention. Staying on task over a period of time. Important for learning a new task or solving problems: between ages of 1-5 sustained attention in play activities increases. Individual differenced in children"s attentional abilities emerges early: measures of sustained attention at age 1-2 is predictive of attention in early childhood. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: children with adhd have difficulties with inhibitory control and sustained attention. Japanese children did better at tasks involving simultaneous attention to both object and its context: differences only evident in children older than 6. 1975 told children a story about a boy who wanted to remember which. Christmas he got his pet dog: age differences in use of cue cards to help retrieve information.
