Cognition

Question 1

Four Stages of Piaget’s Theory

Answer 1

Sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, Concrete operational stage, Formal operational stage

Question 2

Age of sensorimotor stage

Answer 2

birth to age 2

Question 3

What is learned through sensorimotor stage

Answer 3

object permanence

Question 4

Object permanence

Answer 4

things continue to exist when they are out of sight

Question 5

What did Piaget believe

Answer 5

that we assimilate new experiences by putting them into our schemas or we accommodate by adjusting out schemas to take into account new experiences

Question 6

Age of Preoperational stage

Answer 6

age 2 to 7

Question 7

What is learned during preoperational stage

Answer 7

pretend play, lack logical reasoning, learn things can be represented through symbols such as words and images

Question 8

Age of concrete operational stage

Answer 8

age 7 to 11

Question 9

Description of lesson concrete operational stage

Answer 9

learn to think logically about concrete events. Quantity remains same despite change in shape

Question 10

Age of formal operational stage

Answer 10

age 12 to adulthood

Question 11

Description of formal operational stage

Answer 11

People learn abstract reasoning and moral reasoning

Question 12

Recall

Answer 12

retrieve info from memory without clues

Question 13

Recognition

Answer 13

retrieve info from memory with clues

Question 14

Confirmation bias

Answer 14

being unable to approach things from multiple perspectives and view only from one way

Question 15

Fixation

Answer 15

inability to see problem from fresh perspective

Question 16

mental set

Answer 16

tendency to fixate on solutions that worked in the past though they may not apply to the current situation

Question 17

Functional Fixedness

Answer 17

tendency to perceive the functions of objects as fixed and unchanging

Question 18

Heuristics

Answer 18

mental shortcuts

Question 19

representativeness heuristic

Answer 19

tendency to judge the likelihoods of an event occurring based on our typical mental representations of those events.. Shark vs Vending Machine p.96

Question 20

Availability heuristic

Answer 20

tendency to make judgments based on how readily available information is in our memories p.96

Question 21

belief bias

Answer 21

tendency to judge arguments based on what one believes about their conclusions rather than on whether they use sound logical

Question 22

belief perseverance

Answer 22

tendency to cling to beliefs despite presence of contrary evidence