AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Information Processing model is another way of examining and understanding how children develop cognitively. This model, developed in the 1960’s and 1970’s, conceptualizes children’s mental processes through the metaphor of a computer processing, encoding, storing, and decoding data.

Detailed explanation-2: -Information processing theory is an approach to cognitive development studies that aims to explain how information is encoded into memory. It is based on the idea that humans do not merely respond to stimuli from the environment. Instead, humans process the information they receive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget proposed four major stages of cognitive development, and called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking. Each stage is correlated with an age period of childhood, but only approximately.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cognitive information processing model portrays the mind as possessing a structure consisting of components for processing (storing, retrieving, transforming, using) information and procedures for using the components.

Detailed explanation-5: -14.4: Information Processing Theory-Memory, Encoding, and Storage.