Cognitive Information Processing

Running Head : COGNITIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING

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INTRODUCTION

Cognitive development refers to the age-related changes in acts of gaining knowledge . This includes perception , remembering , reasoning understanding and problem solving . The components of cognitive development include sensory organs , which are the eye which helps in visual sensation , ear for sound detection , mouth for taste sensation and nose for sense sensation and skin for tongue detection . Cognition is most rapid and striking

in infants , children and adolescence . However cognition also takes place in adults during memory recovery from great damages (Sweller , 1999

COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY

Cognitive load theory refers to the load which is placed on the working memory during instruction giving process . Cognitive load theory therefore provides guidelines which assist in information representation , in such a way that the learning activities and intellectual performance are optimized . The latest research has noticed similarities between the new computers and human thinking , since both can manipulate numbers and several non numeric symbols . Secondly , the research has also disclosed that the cognition and representation processes exist in an organized system with specific constraints and properties (Chandler Sweller , 1991 . The aim of this research was to define cognitive architecture which refers to structure of information processing system . Research has also indicated that cognitive development occurs through self modification of information processing system

THE PRINCIPLES OF COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY

The short term memory is extremely limited in the capacity of...