Cognition 4.1 [HY]

Question 1

Dual-Coding Theory

Answer 1

states that both verbal association and visual images are used to process and store information

(Verbal and visual needed to store and process info)

Question 2

Jean Piaget

Answer 2

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development:

Sensorimotor - Birth to 2, child learns to manipulate the environment in order to meet physical needs and learns to
coordinate sensory input with motor actions.

Preoperational - 2 to 7, (symbols and selfishness) characterized by symbolic thinking and egocentrism.

Concrete operational - 7 to 11, (conservation and others perspectives) children can understand conservation and consider the perspectives of others.

Formal operational - 11, (Logic and abstract) the ability to think logically about abstract ideas

Question 3

Lev Vygotsky

Answer 3

educational psychologist, proposed that the engine driving cognitive development is children’s internalization of their culture, including interpersonal and societal rules,

(Culture drives cognitive development)

Question 4

Dementia

Answer 4

• General loss of cognitive function.
• often begins with impaired memory, but later progresses to impaired judgment
  and confusion

Question 5

Delirium

Answer 5

rapid fluctuation in cognitive function that is reversible and caused by medical (nonpsychological) causes

(Fluctuates and med not psych)