Chapter 7

Information Processing Applications

how ppl manipulate info, monitor that info, then create strategies for handling that info
Mechanisms---> change
- Encoding- info into memory
- Automaticity- process without effort
- Strategy construction- new way to process information
- Self-modifaction- adapt to new situation
Speeds effect on process

Influences what we can do with information
Attention types
- Selective
- Divided
- Sustained
- Executive
- Joint attention
Memory

The retention of information over time
Process of Memory
- Encoding
- Storage
- Retrevial
Implicit Memory
- Automatic
- e.g. Skills and routines
Explicit memory

Facts and experience
Thinking

Manipulating/ transforming information in memory
Decision Making in Adolescence

increase in decision making
Theory of mind

ones own mind and others

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Chapter 7

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