According to information processing, cognitive growth is characterized by increasing sophistication in information processing. The approach focuses on the types of thinking people use when they seek to solve problems.
Information processing studies evaluate human’s development taking into consideration how information is processed, which can be accessed in terms of speed, complexity and memory capacity. The studies of cognitive grown are based in how people think and reason to solve problems.
Shaping is an operant conditioning method which selectively reinforces closer approximations of a goal behavior until the desired behavior is displayed.
