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Santrock Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
Life-Span Development: A Topical Approach
John W. Santrock
Cognitive Processes and Development
Information Processing

Learning Objectives

  1. THE INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPROACH
    1. Exploring the Information-Processing Approach
    2. Characteristics
    3. Comparing the Information-Processing Approach with the Cognitive Developmental Approaches
  2. PROCESSING SPEED
  3. ATTENTION
    1. What Is Attention?
    2. Infancy
    3. Childhood and Adolescence
    4. Adulthood and Aging
  4. MEMORY
    1. What Is Memory?
    2. Infancy
    3. Childhood
      1. Short-Term and Long-Term Memory
      2. Memory Span
      3. How Accurate Are Children's Long-Term Memories?
      4. Strategies
      5. Scripts
      6. Knowledge
    4. Adulthood and Aging
      1. Memory and Study Strategies
        1. . Pay Attention and Minimize Distraction
        2. Understand the Material Rather than Rotely Memorize It
        3. Organize What You Put Into Memory
        4. Use Mnemonic Strategies
        5. Ask Yourself Questions
        6. Spread Out and Consolidate Your Learning
        7. Cognitively Monitor Your Progress
        8. Be a Good Time Manager and Planner
      2. Developmental Changes
        1. Episodic Memory
        2. Semantic Memory
      3. Cognitive Resources: Working Memory and Processing Speed
      4. Explicit and Implicit Memory
      5. Memory Beliefs
      6. Noncognitive Factors
      7. Memory Training
      8. Conclusions about Memory and Aging
  5. THINKING
    1. What Is Thinking?
    2. Childhood
      1. Critical Thinking
      2. Schools and Critical Thinking
      3. Domain-Specific Thinking
        1. Mathematical Thinking
        2. Scientific Thinking
    3. Adolescence
      1. Critical Thinking
      2. Decision Making
    4. Adulthood and Aging
      1. Expertise
      2. Use It or Lose It
      3. Practical Problem Solving
      4. Cognitive Training
  6. METACOGNITION
    1. What Is Metacognition?
    2. Strategies and Metacognitive Regulation of Strategies
    3. Developmental Changes
      1. The Young Child's Theory of Mind
        1. Becoming Aware That the Mind Exists
        2. Understanding Cognitive Connections to the Physical World
        3. Detecting Accuracies/Inaccuracies of the Mind
        4. Understanding the Mind's Active Role in Emotion and Reality
      2. Metamemory in Children
      3. Adolescence
      4. Adult Development and Aging








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