Information Processing Flashcards
What kind of approach is the Information-Processing Approach?
Cognitive
What is the Information-Processing Approach?
A cognitive approach where people manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it
Cognitive psychologists often draw analogies to what to help explain the relation between cognition and the brain?
Computers
True or false: The information processing abilities of children increase as they grow by the influence of increases in cognitive resources.
True
What happens as children grow, mature, and experience the world?
Their information-processing abilities increase
Information processing in children is characterized by ______, where they learn to use what they have learned in previous circumstances to adapt their responses to a new situation.
Self-modification
What affect does attention have on cognitive processing for many tasks?
It improves them! –Attention improves cognitive processing for many tasks.
______ is considered a label for approaches that explain behavior by examining mental processes.
Cognitive Psychology