Describe how the information processing approach to cognitive development utilizes computer metaphors
What will be an ideal response?
- Information processing approaches highlight the roles of encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. These activities are analogous to different aspects of a digital computer.
- Encoding can be thought of as a computer's keyboard, allowing information to be entered into a processing system.
- Storage is like a computer's hard drive, where information is retained.
- Retrieval is analogous to software that accesses information for further use.
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1. Collaborative inhibition is due to the social loafing phenomenon 2. Transience refers to forgetting that occurs as a result of divided attention 3. Hermann Ebbinghaus first described how information in long-term memory is forgotten with the passage of time 4. As time passes, information is lost from long-term memory at a constant rate 5. As time passes, we begin to lose information in our long-term memory store at a faster and faster rate
What is the Bell Curve controversy and how are racial differences in intelligence scores best explained?
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Compared with anorexia nervosa patients, persons diagnosed with bulimia nervosa have
A) a higher risk of mortality. B) a lower risk of mortality. C) no risk of mortality. D) an equal risk of mortality.
What percent of African Americans in late adulthood live below the poverty level?
A. 8 percent B. 12 percent C. 24 percent D. 31 percent