Approaches to Learning: Cognitive

Question 1

What is the the core focus of cognitive psychology

Answer 1

How persons acquire, process and store information.

Question 2

Term used to describe a hypothetical mental structure that permits the classification and organization of new information

Answer 2

Schema

Question 3

Term used to describe the inclusion of a new event into an existing schema

Answer 3

Assimilation

Question 4

Which theorist hypothesized that children’s cognitive processes develop in an orderly sequence of stages

Answer 4

Jean Piaget’s Cognitive-Developmental

Theory

Question 5

What are the 4 stages of Cognitive development

Answer 5

Sensorimotor Stage
Pre-operational Stage
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational Stage

Question 6

What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of birth- 2yrs

Answer 6

Sensorimotor Stage

Question 7

What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 2-7 yrs

Answer 7

Pre-operational Stage

Question 8

What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 7-12 yrs

Answer 8

Concrete Operational

Question 9

What Cognitive Stage occurs between the age of 12 yrs+

Answer 9

Formal Operational Stage

Question 10

True or False, The newborn is capable of assimilation

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Term given to an infant 8-12 months when they realizes that objects that are removed from sight still exist

Answer 11

Object permanence

Question 12

The cognitive stage that is characterized by the use of words and symbols
to represent objects and relationships among them

Answer 12

Pre-operational Stage

Question 13

What cognitive stage is associated with Egocentrism, Animism, and Artificialism

Answer 13

Pre-operational Stage

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Pre-operational Stage

Question 15

What cognitive stage is associated with the assignment of blame according to the amount of damage done rather than the motives of the person.

Answer 15

Pre-operational Stage

Question 16

What cognitive stage is associated with showing the beginnings of the capacity for adult logic

Answer 16

Concrete Operational

Question 17

What cognitive stage is associated with recognition that processes can
be undone; things can be made as they were before.

Answer 17

Concrete Operational

Question 18

What cognitive stage is associated with a press for acceptance of their logic without recognizing exceptions along with thinking they have an imaginery audience

Answer 18

The Formal Operational Stage

Question 19

What are the different problem solving aids

Answer 19

Trial and Error, Algorithms, Hiuristics

Question 20

What problem solving aids involves mental shortcuts

Answer 20

Hiuristics

Question 21

What problem solving aids involves a predetermined procedure or ordered
sequence for carrying out a task

Answer 21

Algorithms

Question 22

What 3 internal mental processes does Cognitive Psychology involve

Answer 22

Problem solving,
Memory,
Attention

Question 23

What memory affect is associated with rehearsing and associating rehearsed material with many different contexts.

Answer 23

Practice Effects

Question 24

What memory affect is associated with some encoded material interfering with the learning of new material

Answer 24

Interference Effects

Question 25

What memory affect is associated with the more deeply a word is processed the easier it will be to remember

Answer 25

Levels of Processing Effects

Question 26

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

Answer 26

State Dependent Effects

Question 27

What memory affect is associated with Categorizing material to be learnt makes it is easier to remember

Answer 27

Organization Effects