Advantages And Disadvantages Of Information Processing

Metacognition is the awareness and understanding of various aspects of thought. School- aged children develop this quality, as it becomes more reflective and deliberate with age. Metacognition allows students to remember and solve problems. During early and middle childhood, metacognition expands as children develop theory of mind; A coherent understanding of people as mental beings, which they revise as they encounter new evidence. Metacognitive research consists of the children’s ability to understand their own, and others’, perceptions, feelings, desires, beliefs, and the children’s knowledge of mental activity. Six and seven year olds realize that doing well on a task depends on paying attention, concentrating, and exerting effort (Miller & …show more content…
Therefore, the information processing research has a major impact on the design of teaching techniques, which, ultimately, improve many aspects of children’s thinking. Another strength is that the research from information processing has provided us with an abundance of evidence on how people remember, reason, and solve problems. The main limitation of information processing is that since it analyzes cognition into specific components, information processing has a difficult time putting them into a broad theory of development. Another limitation is the computer method of information processing because it does not display the importance of real life learning experiences. Aspects like creativity and imagination are disregarded. Computers do not have the same characteristics as humans and can not engage in human interactions, so there may be a distorted representation of how children think. Children learn so much from their environment, parents, teachers, and peers, so having a computer analogy does not quite explain every aspect of metacognition in