Information processing approach

Processing involved in acquiring and remembering information or solving problems

Focusing mental resources Selective attention, divided attention, sustained attention, executive attention.

attention overly focused by two or more people on the same object.

Sensory memory, Short-term memory, Long-term memory

Manipulating and transforming information in memory to reason, reflect, think critically, evaluate ideas, solve problems, and make decisions.

Contains general facts and meanings shared with others

Have trouble remembering any biographical events before the age of four years old.

Enables a person to recall an intention to do something

Your awareness of an ability to monitor your own memory processes.

Awareness and understanding of oneâs own thought processes.

Adults over 40 have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood.

The ability to remember not just what you learned but where, when, and how you learned it.

The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.

The set of mental skills that enable goal-directed behavior, involving the organization of thought and purposeful activities.

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Chapter 7: Informati

Term	Definition
Information processing approach	Processing involved in acquiring and remembering information or solving problems
Attention	Focusing mental resources Selective attention, divided attention, sustained attention, executive attention.
Divided attention
Executive attention
Selective attention
Sustained attention
Habituation	Decreases response
Joint attention	attention overly focused by two or more people on the same object.
Memory	Sensory memory, Short-term memory, Long-term memory
Sensory memory
Short-term memory
Long-term memory
Thinking	Manipulating and transforming information in memory to reason, reflect, think critically, evaluate ideas, solve problems, and make decisions.
Semantic memory	Contains general facts and meanings shared with others
Infantile amnesia	Have trouble remembering any biographical events before the age of four years old.
Prospective memory	Enables a person to recall an intention to do something
Metamemory	Your awareness of an ability to monitor your own memory processes.
Metacognition	Awareness and understanding of oneâs own thought processes.
Reminiscence bump	Adults over 40 have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood.
Source memory	The ability to remember not just what you learned but where, when, and how you learned it.
Thinking
Critical thinking	The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement.
Executive function	The set of mental skills that enable goal-directed behavior, involving the organization of thought and purposeful activities.
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