Chapter 5.2 Learning, attention, remembering, and conceptualizing

Question 1

attention

Answer 1

The focusing of mental resources on select information.

Question 2

joint attention

Answer 2

Process that occurs when individuals focus on the same object and are able to track:
1. another’s behavior,
2. one individual directs another’s attention,
3. and reciprocal interaction takes place.

Question 3

memory

Answer 3

A central feature of cognitive development, pertaining to all situations in which an individual retains information over time.

Question 4

implicit memory

Answer 4

Memory without conscious recollection; involves skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed.

Skills, procedures, habits, and conditional responses

Question 5

Explicit memory

Answer 5

Memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state.

information that is conscious and known

Question 6

deferred imitation

Answer 6

Imitation that occurs after a delay of hours or days

Question 7

Concepts

Answer 7

Cognitive groupings of similar objects, events, people or ideas

Question 8

Around when occurs joint attention in infants?

Answer 8

Occur at 7 to 8 months, but isn’t until toward the first year that joint attention skills are frequintly observed.