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| Information-processing theory |
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| attempts to explain children's mental development in terms of operation changes in basic components of mental machinery; begins with assumption that mind is a system for analyzing information from environment |
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| those that can be consciously recalled and reported to others |
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| memories that affect behavior even though person is unable to report them; even young infants have/form/act on implicit memories |
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| explicit memories that are facts, beliefs, and word meanings |
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| explicit memories first formed by infants about 10-12 months, but ability to report does not occur until about 3-4yrs, although can be commented on at about 20-24months |
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| center of conscious thought and where information is combined and manipulated to solve problems; capacity increases with age and is closely related to speed of processing |
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| the speed at which elementary information-processing tasks can be carried out; age-related improvement up til about 15yrs; correlated to working memory capacity |
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