Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Long-Term Memory, Verbal Memory, Working Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Information processing perspective is not a unified theory of cognitive development (like. Ipp studies mechanisms of change for specific aspects of cognition. Ipp examines how children and adults operate on info (i. e. detecting, transforming, storing, accessing and modifying it through the cognitive system. Ipp views the mind as a complex symbol-manipulating system. *good mc question: automatic processes so well learned that they require no space in working memory and therefore permit us to focus on other info while simultaneously performing then. Long-term memory stores info permanently: unlimited, retrieval getting info back out of ltm, development of working memory. Increases capacity with age: about 2 items at 2 , about 4-5 items at 7, 6-7 items in adolescence. Children generate a variety of strategies, some strategies are sele(cid:272)ted, they (cid:862)sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)e,(cid:863) others are less useful a(cid:374)d (cid:862)die off(cid:863) Sustained attention spending time focused on complex stimuli, maintain a focus of attention.