Information Processing Flashcards
1
Q
What is the purpose of this theory?
A
- To explain how information is encoded into memory
- Inspired by data science
- Continuous development - quality and quantity with experience
- Focus on how children and adults develop components of cognitive thinking
- One course for all
- Both nature and nurture
- The child is active
2
Q
How does it work?
A
- Input - Sensory memory: information presented to our senses - from environment. Sounds smells.
- Processing: information coded, transformed and organized
- Output: behavioural response
- The child is active in its learning; modify thinking in response to environmental stimuli
- First to our short term memory(processor), to a long term memory(harddrive)
- Different capacities
- Retrieval and encoding
- Information processing is sequential, 1-2-3
3
Q
What are some potentional limitations of this “theory”?
A
- Explain things like the brain is a computer
- Not much info on how nature and nurture effect developing of components
