Fuzzy-trace theory

The fuzzy trace theory is a psychological theory of cognitive development, which is roughly associate the information processing theories.

According to the theory encode human experiences on a continuum of verbatim ( word for word ) to fuzzy (out of focus ). The contents of a stored state of affairs contains the most important relationships, but few details. " Fuzzy " traces can be activated with less effort, " literal " tracks are easily forgotten. It is believed that children up to seven years trying to remember the most accurate and many " literal " information, older children and adults save more " fuzzy" information. Children need longer in the processing of facts, because their cognitive resources are busy to remember verbatim details. Accordingly, they can not filter out irrelevant information as well and are therefore subject to more interference, so confounding factors, as adolescents and adults.

When releasing many tasks you need more " fuzzy" information with other " literal ": It is assumed that for the memory performance the exact representation is less important than the summary storage of information. With this intuitive and inaccurate information, however, problems can be solved worse.

The cognitive triage effect is used as a reason for this model. He says that the contents of the memory are played weak - strong - weak in the order.