Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Information-Processing Development
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The idea
Information-processing theories see cognitive development as gradual rather than staged, tracking attention, memory, processing speed, the organization of thinking, and metacognition.
In practice
Processing speed rises sharply from about age five into mid-adolescence, then levels off.
Where people slip
This view treats the mind as a system that handles information, so change is continuous, not a series of stages.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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