Information Processing Approach to Learning

Information Processing Approach to Learning

1. Sensory Memory

   • Registry of stimulus from the environment.

2. Attention

   • implies focussing cognitive resources to a stimulus.

3. Perception

   • to give meaning of sensory input.
   • depens on
     • Knowledge
     • Context

4. Working memory = short-term memory

   • where information is processed to give it meaning.

5. New information

   • acquire
   • store
   • recall

6. information-processing abilities increase during child development

   • influenced by
     • concurrent increases in capacity and speed of processing

7. Retrieval

   • recuperating information from long-term memory to working memory

8. Storing and encoding

   • encoding is the process of breaking the information down into a form we understand
     • later "decode" the information to recall it

9. Vision & hearing

   • processed separately in memory

10. Sensory memory

    • each sense has its own memory which lasts a few second

11. Working memory

    • receives input from sensory memory

12. Long-term memory

    • unlimited and relatively permanent, composed of a vast information network