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Four-year-old Gretchen, from an impoverished home, may achieve a higher IQ from attending Head Start than not attending.
 
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How does the information-processing theory use the computer metaphor to describe human cognition?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
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The computer, with its random access memory, storage capacity, and software, is used as a metaphor for human cognition. Information is encoded or inputted into the computer and then manipulated in working memory (RAM). Information may be stored in a storage device (short- or long-term memory) and retrieved when needed. Problem solving strategies are considered to be mental programs or software, while the brain is the hardware.. Limitations in thinking may be a result of limited memory capacity, retrieval problems, and ability to run multiple programs.


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