cognitive Flashcards
overextension
generalizing names for things
telegraphic speech
speech without articles or extras - me go
holophrastic speech
one word to convey whole sentencec
roger brown
children learn grammar as they male hypothesis and test them out
syntax
arrangement of words into sentences - tells us what goes where
language milestones
1 year = speak first word
2 = less than 50 words, usually 2-3 word phrases
3 = 1000 word vocal, grammar errors
4 =less grammar problems
transformation rules
tells us how we can change one structure into another - changing statement to a question
charles spearman
individual differences in intelligence due to variations in g , second factor called s (specific tasks)
louis thurstone
7 abilities called primary mental abilities , used factor analysis
triarchic theory
robert sternberg - 3 aspects of intelligence; componential, experiential, contextual
howard gardner’s theory
theory of multiple intelligence, 7
mcclellan and rumelhart
parallel distributed processing - processing down in parrell fashion
zeigarnik effect
tendency to remember incomplete tasks better than completed
mmenomic devices
chunking, method of loci
inhibition theory
forgetting is due to activities that happen between learning and recall
retroactive inhibition
learn list a then learn b, can’t remember list a
proactive inhibition
what you learned earlier interferes with recall
paivios dual hypothesis
information can be stored in 2 ways (visually and verbally)
schema
frameworks used to organize our knowledge
levels of processing theory
craik and lockhart
3 ways or levels information can be processed
physical, acoustical, and semantic
deeper the processing, the better remembering
elaborative rehearsal
getting info into ltm, organizing it and associating it with info already in ltm
maintenance rehearsal
repeating the info, keeping info in stm
stage theory of memory
different memory systems: sensory, sim, ltm
ebbinghaus
method of savings - compared number of times it took to rememorizes something learned - created forgetting curve