Approaches to Learning: Cognitive Flashcards
What is the the core focus of cognitive psychology
How persons acquire, process and store information.
Term used to describe a hypothetical mental structure that permits the classification and organization of new information
Schema
Term used to describe the inclusion of a new event into an existing schema
Assimilation
Which theorist hypothesized that children’s cognitive processes develop in an orderly sequence of stages
Jean Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental
Theory
What are the 4 stages of Cognitive development
Sensorimotor Stage
Pre-operational Stage
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational Stage
What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of birth- 2yrs
Sensorimotor Stage
What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 2-7 yrs
Pre-operational Stage
What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 7-12 yrs
Concrete Operational
What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 12 yrs+
Formal Operational Stage
True or False, The newborn is capable of assimilation
True
Term given to an infant 8-12 months when they realizes that objects that are removed from sight still exist
Object permanence
The cognitive stage that is characterized by the use of words and symbols
to represent objects and relationships among them
Pre-operational Stage
What cognitive stage is associated with Egocentrism, Animism, and Artificialism
Pre-operational Stage
What cognitive stage is associated with recognizing that the basic properties of a substance (such as weight) remain the same when superficial features are change.
Pre-operational Stage
What cognitive stage is associated with the assignment of blame according to the amount of damage done rather than the motives of the person.
Pre-operational Stage
What cognitive stage is associated with showing the beginnings of the capacity for adult logic
Concrete Operational
What cognitive stage is associated with recognition that processes can
be undone; things can be made as they were before.
Concrete Operational
What cognitive stage is associated with a press for acceptance of their logic without recognizing exceptions along with thinking they have an imaginery audience
The Formal Operational Stage
What are the different problem solving aids
Trial and Error, Algorithms, Hiuristics
What problem solving aids involves mental shortcuts
Hiuristics
What problem solving aids involves a predetermined procedure or ordered
sequence for carrying out a task
Algorithms
What 3 internal mental processes does Cognitive Psychology involve
Problem solving,
Memory,
Attention
What memory affect is associated with rehearsing and associating rehearsed material with many different contexts.
Practice Effects
What memory affect is associated with some encoded material interfering with the learning of new material
Interference Effects
What memory affect is associated with the more deeply a word is processed the easier it will be to remember
Levels of Processing Effects
What memory affect is associated with the context within which material is learnt makes it easier to remember/recall the material within that or similar context
State Dependent Effects
What memory affect is associated with Categorizing material to be learnt makes it is easier to remember
Organization Effects
