Unit 3: Module 3.4 - 3.5

Question 1

Cognition

Answer 1

All the mental activities associated with thinking and remembering

Question 2

Schema

Answer 2

A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

Question 4

Accommodation

Answer 4

Adapting our current schemas to incorporate new information

Question 5

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 5

The stage at which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions

Question 6

Object Permanence

Answer 6

The awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

Question 7

Preoperational Stage

Answer 7

The stage at which a child learns to use language but not yet understand the mental operations of concrete logic

Question 8

Conservation

Answer 8

The principle that properties such as mass and volume remain the same despite the change in shape of objects

Question 9

Egocentrism

Answer 9

The preoperational child’s difficulty taking another’s pov

Question 10

Concrete Operational Stage

Answer 10

The stage of cognitive development at which children can perform the mental operations that enable them to think logically

Question 11

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 11

The stage of cognitive development at which people to think logically about abstract concepts

Question 12

Scaffold

Answer 12

A framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking

Question 13

Theory Of Mind

Answer 13

People’s ideas about their own and other’s mental states

Question 14

Language

Answer 14

An agreed-upon system of spoken or written way to communicate meaning

Question 15

Phoneme

Answer 15

The smallest distinct sound unit in a language

Question 16

Morpheme

Answer 16

The smallest unit that carries meaning (a prefix) in a language

Question 17

Grammar

Answer 17

A system of rules that enables us to communicate/understand each other

Question 18

Universal Grammar

Answer 18

Humans innate predisposition to understand the principles and rules that govern grammar in all languages

Question 19

Babbling Stage

Answer 19

The stage in speech development in which an infant spontaneously utters various sounds that don’t sound like a language

Question 20

One-Word Stage

Answer 20

The stage in speech development in which a child speaks mostly in single words

Question 21

Two-Word Stage

Answer 21

The stage in speech development in which a child speaks mostly in two-word sentences

Question 22

Telegraphic Speech

Answer 22

The early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram (go car)

Question 23

Aphasia

Answer 23

Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage

Question 24

Broca’s Area

Answer 24

A frontal lobe brain area in the left hemisphere that helps control language

Question 25

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 25

A brain area involved in language comprehension and expression

Question 26

Linguistic Determinism

Answer 26

Whorf’s hypothesis that language determines the way we think

Question 27

Linguistic Relativism

Answer 27

The idea that language influences the way we think