Entry 26 - Cognitive Information-Processing Approach.

THE COGNITIVE INFORMATION - PROCESSING APPROACH

Major school of thought within psychology

-Works like a computer

-Input data

-Processes data

-Output data

1. Introduction, issues, and overview

2. Robert Siegler's 3 main characteristics

1) Thinking - information processing . Making differences between different things that you know.

2) change mechanisms (4)

1: Encoding - bring something into a system ( new information )

2: Auto maticity - know something so well don't really need to think about it

3: Strategy construction - making a cognitive function conscious effectively

4: Transfer-

3) Self modification.

Change our system through the effort of our own will. Draw attention to our own thinking - thinking about our thinking (meta cognition) being aware of our own thinking. Highest level of thinking is meta cognition. ***crucial to high level success

SQ4R (SQRRRR)

S: Survey

Q: Question- yourself about the material.

R: Read - as you read you will discover answers.

R: Recite- say it out loud.

R:Relate- correspond with what you know.

R: Review