Sternberg’s Information Processing Approach

Sternberg’s Information Processing Approach

1. Development is

   • Skill based
   • Continuous

2. Focus is on Intelligence

3. Does not differentiate between

   • Adult learning
   • Children learning

4. Components of intelligence

   • Metacomponents
   • Performance components
   • Knowledge-acquisition components

5. Rejects the idea of incremental stages

6. Development changes as a result of

   • Feedback
   • Self Monitoring
   • Automatisation