Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neural Tube, Long-Term Memory, Neuroglia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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8 mc questions + 2 short answer q from previous material. Overlapping waves theory: at any one time, kids think in variety of ways, the varied ways of thinking compete with each other, not just at transitions but for prolonged periods. Suggests that cognitive development is not a shift from one way of thinking to another but changes of frequency within frequency of diff types of thinking over ages (ex. Strengthening new strategy to use it more efficiently. Trying to understand cognitive development from the perspective of understanding the psychological components (and their development) necessary for the processing of information. Information from the world enters and flows through a number of cognitive processes before ending as a response to the world (ex. Environmental input sensory registers (visual, auditory) short term memory long term memory of response output. Working memory: temporary, short-term storage of info that you manipulate to do what is needed (ex.