Week 9-10: Cognition

Question 1

What is cognition?

Answer 1

Perceiving and processing information
Adapting to information
Constructing a reality from experience
Knowing and acting on information

Question 2

What are the 5 basic concepts in cognition?

Answer 2

Attention
Content
Organization
Adaptation
Metacognition

Question 3

Which concept is known for systematically ordering information into a coherent pattern or system?

Answer 3

Organization

Question 4

Which concept is known for interpreting and modifying reality based on existing knowledge?

Answer 4

Adaptation

Question 5

Which concept is similar to Piaget?

Answer 5

Adaptation

Question 6

“efficiency of using knowledge” is known as what concept of information processing?

Answer 6

processing speed

Question 7

This type of memory helps us to remember autobiographical events in our lives (ex. what did you do on your 17th birthday?)

Answer 7

Episodic Memory

Question 8

This type of memory helps us to remember structured record of facts, meanings, concepts and knowledge about the external world that we have acquired

Answer 8

Semantic Memory

Question 9

This type of memory is conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information (ex. remember what time your doctors appointment is)

Answer 9

Explicit memory

Question 10

Immediate and working memory fall into what category of cognition?

Answer 10

STM

Question 11

declarative and nondeclarative memory fall into what category of cognition?

Answer 11

LTM

Question 12

Episodic, semantic, and explicit memories fall into what category of memory?

Answer 12

declarative

Question 13

implicit and procedural memories fall into what category of memory?

Answer 13

nondeclarative

Question 14

sequencing, categorization and deduction fall under what concept of cognition

Answer 14

organization

Question 15

receiving, encoding, storage, and retrieval fall under what concept of cognition?

Answer 15

content

Question 16

This concept is known as “thinking about thinking”; an ability to understand principles, theories, and phenomena?

Answer 16

metacognition

Question 17

What is the primary step in the memory process?

Answer 17

Attention

Question 18

This is known as our ability to stay on task for a long time; vigilance at what you’re doing?

Answer 18

Sustained attention

Question 19

This is known as our ability to tune out all the outside distractions and focus on relevant information

Answer 19

Selective attention

Question 20

This is known as our ability to do multiple things at once; attending to 2 or more things at once?

Answer 20

divided attention

Question 21

T/F: research shows that we are good at multi-tasking?

Answer 21

False

Question 22

This is known as our ability to alternate between tasks (NOT doing it at the same time)

Answer 22

alternating attention

Question 23

What concept is for identifying person, place, time, and situation?

Answer 23

orientation/content

Question 24

What happens when retrograde memory is affected?

Answer 24

cannot remember old, can remember new/recent information

Question 25

What happens when anterograde memory is affected?

Answer 25

cannot remember new, can remember old information

Question 26

What part of our memory is the most vulnerable to breakdown?

Answer 26

time

Question 27

This STM is responsible for receiving information as soon as it is given; however, it is usually forgotten right away

Answer 27

immediate STM

Question 28

This STM is responsible for keeping information in the STM and then using to encode for LTM

Answer 28

working memory

Question 29

what is a non-associative strategy for memory

Answer 29

habituation

Question 30

This time period in development is characterized by controlling the environment through controlled reponses

Answer 30

Birth

Question 31

T/F: infants have a desire to control the environment?

Answer 31

True

Question 32

T/F: birth to the first year of life is about competence rather than exploration?

Answer 32

False

Question 33

What are some of the main theme for 2 year olds and cognition

Answer 33

explore and master for own sake
develop awareness of coherency, disappointment, and social expectations
social behavior and emotional standards

Question 34

What is one of the highest levels of cognition that connects the past with the present?

Answer 34

executive functioning

Question 35

Where is most of executive functioning located?

Answer 35

the frontal lobe