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Chapter 6: Cognitive Growth: Information Processing Approach Flashcards

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Information Processing Approach

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focuses on ways people process information about their world, seek to identify the ways individuals take in, use, and store information

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Three things- Info Processing Approach

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  • manipulate information
  • monitor information
  • create strategies to deal with it
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Model For information processing

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Stimulus–attention–(encoding)–memory—-thinking—–response

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Improvements in Info-Processing

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-experience (nurture)
-continuing myelination of axons (requires fat)
less than one year (breast milk)
3 yrs (2% milk)
5+ years (no skim!!!, nonfat milk)

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Changes in Processing Speed with Age

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  • Improves dramatically through childhood and adolescence
  • begins decline early childhood (reaction time/processing speed slows) (affects memory)
  • keeps declining in middle and late adulthood
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Attention

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info processing involving ability to strategically choose among and sort out different stimuli in environment; concentrating and focusing mental resources

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Interesting new Phenomenon

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“learned attention deficit”

“continual partial attention”

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Sustained Attention(vigilance)

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state of readiness to detect and respond to small changes occurring at random times in environment
ex/Ready to respond if called on in class

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Selective Attention

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focusing on specific aspect of experience that is relevant while ignoring others
ex/ studying in a noisy environment

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Divided Attention

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concentrating on more than one activity at a time
ex/ multi-tasking mom
studying AND watching tv

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Relevant Information

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assists in solving a problem or performing a task

ex/notes from class-exam

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Salient Information

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Info that stands out but may not be important
ex/officer visits class discussing safety rules with balloons, child remembers balloons and forgets rules
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Average attention spam of 5-6 year olds

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7 minutes on single activity

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planning

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the ability to allocate attentional resources on the basis of goals that one wishes to achieve

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Changes in attention in childhood and adolescence

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  • cognitive control attention improves during childhood and adolescence
  • declines begin early childhood (use strategies to cope)
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Aging and Attention

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  • older adults (50-80) may not be able to focus on relevant info as effectively as younger adults
  • less adept at selective attention (music in stores- forever21 vs talbot)
  • older adults performed worse in divided attention than younger
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Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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marked by inattention, impulsiveness, a low tolerance for frustration, and great deal of inappropriate activity

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memory

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retention of information over time

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Basic Processes of Memory

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encoding (getting information into memory)
storage (retaining information over time)
retrieval (taking information out of storage)

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Automatization

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degree to which an activity requires attention
(require little attention are automatic)
(require large attention are controlled)

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Cognitive Architecture Approach (Atkinson and Shiffrin)

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determines specific steps through which material is processed as it travels through the human mind

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Cognitive Architecture: Three System Model

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  • Sensory Store
  • short term memory
  • long term memory
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sensory stage

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initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant (loss of info within 1 second)

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Short-term Memory

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retention of information for up to 15-30 seconds (7 chunks***+ or - two items)

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chunk
meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short term memory ex/ letter,number, word, well known maxim
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Working Memory (central executive)
temporary mental "workbench" More active and powerful than short-term memory -individuals MANIPULATE and ASSEMBLE info when making decisions, solving problems and comprehending written and spoken language
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Working Memory and Long Term Memory
WM interacts with LTM using information from LTM in its work and transmitting info to LTM for longer storage
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Working Memory and Processing Speed
- performance peaked at 45, and declined at 57 | - decline affected both new and old info
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Working Memory linked to?
- reading and math achievement | - processing speed
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Systems of Long Term Memory
- Explicit/declaritive (episodic and semantic) | - Implicit/Procedural
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Implicit Memory (Procedural)
memory wihtout conscious recollection; memory of skills and routine procedures performed automatically ex/ driving, laundry
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Explicit Memory (Declaritive)
conscious memory of facts and experiences. Doesn't appear until after 6 months ex/ remembering the past
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Semantic Memory (type of explicit)
person's knowledge about world - fields of expertise - general academic/school knowledge - "everyday knowledge"
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Episodic Memory (type of explicit)
retention of information about where and when of life's happens ex/ When did you eat lunch? Remembering senior prom
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Source Memory
ability to remember where one learned something | -failure in source memory increases with age in adult years
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Prospective Memory
involves remembering to do something in the future
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prospective memory and age-related declines
- TIME based tasks decline more (appointments) | - EVENT based tasks show less decline (birthdays)
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Long Term Memory Strategies
1. rehearsal- repetition 2. organizing- trying to group related information (Chunking-JMU-568, SS#,ID) 3. imagery- creating mental image (method of LOCI, demo) 4. meaning- encode (taking from STM to LTM) meaning associated with what we already know; make personally meaningful
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Forgetting (problem with...?)
- encoding ("journey" for "trip") - storage (may fade over time) - retrieval
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Dr. Rovee-Collier (memory in infants)
her research proved that even young infants can remember detailed actions and contexts
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infantile amnesia
lack of memory for experiences that occurred prior to 3 years of age
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Autobiographical Memory
memory of particular events from one's life (doesnt achieve much accuracy until after 3)
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Operating efficiency Hypothesis
people are able to remember material better with age b/c process info more quickly and use more effective strategies. NOT due to increases in size of working memory
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script
general representations in memory of sequence or series of events (same activity repeated, remembered in script unless something unusual occurs)
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metamemory
an understanding about the processes that underlie memory, which emerges and improves during middle childhood (study habits)
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Aging and Memory
- younger adults have better episodic memory than older (where/when) - older adults remember older events better than more recent (older the semantic memory, the less accurate) - implicit memory less likely affected by aging than explicit memory
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Influences of Memory of Older Adults
-physiological factors and health -beliefs, expectations, and feelings "if you think you can or cant...you are prob right" -education (lifelong learners) -memory training (crossword puzzles, cards, DS games,etc)
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False Memories
it is possible(very easy) to lead young children to incorporate false suggestions ex/ court cases, salem witch trials -easy to lead adults into thinking they remember something ex/first time we met pink sweater
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Piaget vs. Info Processing
Info Processing is QUANTITATIVE change rather than qualitative, Piaget(sudden spurts) and info processing sees gradual step-by-step growth
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Thinking
Manipulating and transforming in memory
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How to Teach Reading?
code-based approach (taught by presenting basic skills that underlie reading, sounds and combinations/phonics) -whole language approach (reading is natural process, exposure to complete writing-sentences,stories,lists,charts,poems, make guesses about words)
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critical thinking
thinking reflectively and productively, and evaluating evident encourage -openmindedness, intellectual curiosity, planning and strategy, intellectual carefulness
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Thinking in Adulthood
- practical problem solving improves (expertise-extensive, highly organized knowledge and understanding of particular domain (specialization) - Use it or lose it (practice helps cognitive skills) - cognitive training (can help some if skills are being lost)
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Openmindendness
"I DONT KNOW"
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"cowboy up"
firmly commit to decision
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"geek out"
- having creativity | - multiple possibilites

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