Quiz 2 Flashcards
Assimilation
Incorporate new information or experience into existing knowledge schemes.
Accommodation
Adjust existing schemes to take in new information and experience.
Organization
Grouping isolated behaviors into higher-order cognitive system. Undergoes continual refinement and cognitive organization of experiences.
Disequilibrium
Cognitive conflict motivation for change.
Equilibrium
Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to next.
Theory
Unifies experiences and biological maturation to explain cognitive development. Motivation is internal search for equilibrium.
Sensorimotor Stage
Infants coordinate sensory experiences with motor actions. Object permanence.
Preoperational Stage
Second stage. Children represent world with words, images and drawings. Not ready to perform operations.
Intuitive Thought
Substage of Preoperational. Use of primitive thinking, seeks answers to all sorts of questions.
Symbolic Function
Substage of Preoperational. Gain ability to mentally represent an object that’s not present.
Egocentrism
Inability to distinguish own view from another’s view.
Animism
Lifelike qualities given to inanimate objects.
Centration
Focusing attention on one characteristic to exclusion of all others.
Conservation
Object or substance amount stays same regardless of changing appearance; lacking in preoperational stage.
Concrete Operational Stage
7-11 years. Logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning if applied to specific examples. Understands who is father, mother, brother.
Seriation
Involves stimuli along quantitative dimension.
Transitivity
Relationships between objects.
Formal Operational Stage
11-15. Abstract logical way. Solving ability increases.
Hypothetical- deductive reasoning
Cognitive ability to develop hypothesis and systematically find best way to solve problem.
Imaginary Audience
Others are interested in them as they are. Desire to be noticed, visible.
Personal Fable
Adolescents sense of uniqueness and invincibility.
Piaget’s Theory
Vision of children as active and constructive thinkers.
Vygoysky’s Theory
Proposed that children learn through their surrounding culture and interactions.
Zone of proximal development
Difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. Range of tasks too difficult for child to master alone.
Scaffolding
Learning process designed to promote a deeper learning. Scaffolding is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/her learning goals.
Private speech
speech spoken to oneself for communication, self-guidance, and self-regulation of behavior. 3-7 years of age. Inner speech: child’s thoughts.
Realistic Thinking
See the world as it is and accepts it as is - does not try to change anything.
Pragmatic Thinking
wishes the world was a better place but recognizes what it actually is - tries to improve things but recognizes that nothing changes overnight and that some things will never change.
Reflective thinking
Process of analyzing, evaluating, and making judgements about what has happened.
Relativistic Thinking
Thinking using both reason and intuition.
Postformal Thought
Thinking is less abstract and less absolute than formal operational thought. Provisional, realistic and open to emotions and subjective.
Information processing approach
Analyzes the way people process information about their world. Effectiveness involves stimulus, attention, memory and thinking.
Encoding
Information enters memory
Automaticity
Ability to process information with little or no effort
Strategy construction
Discovering new procedure for processing information
Metacognition
Cognition about cognition or knowing about knowing
Attention
Focusing of mental resources.
Infancy
Orienting and investigative process.
Selective attention
Focusing on specific aspect of experience that is relevant while ignoring others
Divided attention
Concentrating on more than one activity at a time.
Sustained attention
Maintain focus on selected stimulus over prolonged period. Called vigilance.
Executive attention
Focus on action planning, goals, errors and compensation and unknown.
Infancy Attention
Habituation, Dishabituation, joint attention, gaze following.
Childhood Attention
Attention control increases.
Adolescence Attention
Processing of irrelevant information decreases, ability to shift from one activity to another at will, better at multi-tasking.
Adulthood Attention
May not be able to focus on relevant information, less adept at selective attention.
Implicit Memory
Memory without conscious recollection; skills and routine done automatically.
Explicit Memory
Conscious memory of facts and experiences; appears after 6 months