PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lev Vygotsky
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If you don"t pay attention, info lost forever. If you do, info moves to short term storage. Info is only available for a few seconds. Children can perform more complicated tasks and think more sophisticatedly. Have to engage in some strategy to store this here. Info always going back and forth between short term and long term storage. Information processing approach (siegler: mind is like a computer (hardware and software, significant growth happening in the brain hardware, changes/growth in strategies as well software. Three stores: sensory register, short term storage (sts) Items adults can hold in sts = miller"s magic number, 7 plus or minus 2 (5-9 items) Children can hold less items in sts: long term storage. Strategies: 2 types of deficiencies, production children will not usually come up with an effective strategy on their own, utilization children may not employ new learned strategies and they may default to a well-learned strategy.
