Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Cognitive Development: the Information Processing Approach

Critical Thinking Questions


1		How does the Information Processing perspective differ from other views of cognitive development?



2		A third grade teacher is concerned about one of her students' inability to understand how to subtract multiple digit numbers. On this particular day, two psychologists happen to be at her school. She asks them for assistance with her situation, unaware that one was trained in the information-processing approach and the other was trained in the cognitive development approach. Describe the advice she might get from each psychologist.



3		Explain how memory is represented by network and schema. Finally, how is memory like a coat rack?



4		How might you apply the Levels of Processing Model to your study of this Psychology course?



5		Compare and contrast how perception develops in Jean Piaget's Enrichment Theory versus Eleanor Gibson's Differentiation Theory.

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