PAPER 1 KEY THEORIES

Question 1

What theory am I?
- R…………………………
- Inaccurate
- Social and cultural influences
- Effort after m………………….

Answer 1

Bartlett’s reconstructive theory

Question 2

What theory am I?
- D…………….
- OFP’s
- Motion P………………….
- Nature

Answer 2

Gibson

Question 3

What theory am I?
+ Hudson (cultural diffs)
+ Can explain visual illusions
- Visual cliff
- Fantz’s baby faces!

Answer 3

Gregory

Question 4

What theory am I?
- Hudson (cultural diffs)
- Can’t explain visual illusions
+ Visual cliff

Answer 4

Gibson

Question 5

What theory am I?
- Learning styles
- P……………..
- Memory = cues and retrieval
- Self- R……………….. (marshmallows!)

Answer 5

Willingham

Question 6

What are Piaget’s 4 stages of development

Answer 6

Sensorimotor; Pre-operational; concrete-operational; formal operational

Question 7

Creating a new schema = ?

Answer 7

Accomodation

Question 8

Definition of a schema

Answer 8

A mental framework of beliefs and expectations

Question 9

Assimilation is…..?

Answer 9

When we use new learning to amend an existing schema

Question 10

What theory am I?
+ Led to activity-orientated teaching
- Sample was middle-class European children

Answer 10

Piaget

Question 11

Willingham’s view that unexpected praise is the best can be used to evaluate which theory?

Answer 11

Dweck

Question 12

A belief that achievements are innate and can’t be changed

Answer 12

Fixed mindset

Question 13

What theory am I?
- C……………………
- Inference
- V………….. C……..
- Nurture = past experience

Answer 13

Gregory

Question 14

What theory am I?
- S………………
- S………………
- A……………………….
- A………………………..

Answer 14

Piaget = stages, schema, assimilation, accomodation

Question 15

Encoding in STM and LTM

Answer 15

Acoustic vs semantic

Question 16

Duration in:
- Sensory
- STM
- LTM

Answer 16

• less than half a second
• 18-30 secs
• Up to a lifetime

Question 17

Who created the MSM?

Answer 17

Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)

Question 18

What moves info from sensory to STM

Answer 18

Attention

Question 19

What moves info from STM to LTM

Answer 19

Rehearsal

Question 20

A case study that supports the MSM having separate stoes of STM and LTM

Answer 20

Clive Wearing

Question 21

A key study that can be used to support the MSM

Answer 21

Murdocks SPE

Question 22

Which part of the MSM is too simplistic?

Answer 22

LTM

Question 23

What theory am I?
+ RWA: teaching should not be led by learning styles
+ based on scientific evidence

Answer 23

Willingham

Question 24

What does the Mischel ‘marshmallow study’ show?

Answer 24

Children better at self-regulation do better in academic performance

Question 25

Willingham says we can improve our memory by using:
= C…………
= R………………..

Answer 25

= Cues
= Retrieval practise