Final Exam Flashcards
What is Information Processing Theory?
Cognitive Development changes over time, humans process information, continuous patterns of development (no stages).
The cognitive process includes…?
Attention, Working memory, long term memory
How is information processed?
Input - Attention - Sensory register - Working memory - Long term memory
The process between short term memory and long term memory
Retrieval and encoding
What is attention?
The allocation of limited processing resources.
Where does control of attention occur?
Parietal lobes (but central cognition occurs in the prefrontal cortex)
What is working memory used for?
Attention, complex thinking, organizing, problem-solving, remembering tasks.
Types of Memory?
Explicit (recall, voluntary, conscious) and Implicit (Involuntary, unconscious)
Examples of types of Long-term memory.
Episodic (memories), Semantic (general knowledge), Procedural (riding a bike, reflexes).
What is habituation?
Diminishing of a response to a frequently repeated stimulus.
How to assess infant attention?
Preferential looking
First sense developed by infants.
Auditory
What helps memory performances in children?
Language (as it develops so does memory)
Gardeners’ theory of Multiple Intelligence?
8 sections (Logical-maths, Linguistic, Spatial, Musical, Body-kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic)
What environmental factors influence intelligence?
Family, School, Poverty, Access to enrichment.