Ch.6 Cog Dev Approaches
An organized way of making sense of experiences.
What is a schema?
This group of people can be particularly poor eyewitnesses, due to their susceptibility to suggestion.
Who are preschool age children, children in early childhood?
This means that the majority of test takers score in the middle range of possible scores.
What is the normal distribution?
What is scaffolding?
This form does not involve a conscious search of memory stores, and can often be accessed automatically.
What is implicit memory?
These are Sternberg's three types of intelligence.
Analytical, creative and practical
This Sensorimotor substage of development is characterized by active experimentation.
What is tertiary circular reactions?
These factors can impact the rate at which cognitive functions decline in age, for instance processing speed.
What is health and exercise?
This is one way to show an infant's 'intellect' and consists of how quickly they get bored or familiar with things and seek out new information.
What are tests of habituation and recovery?
An aspect of adaptation, this happens when one recognizes that their current way of understanding doesn't fit the environment.
What is accommodation?
Maturation of these brain areas results in improvement in conscious memory recall over a child's 2nd year.
What is the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex?
This is an aspect of human thought and experience that is said to be focused on life's pragmatic concerns.
What is wisdom?
An aspect of post-formal thought, where one is skeptical and unwilling to accept a final answer.
What is provisional thought?
The ability to process something with little to no effort, this develops over time as we become more skilled as tasks.
What is automaticity?
This aspect of home life is positively correlated with intelligence in children at age 3.
What is parent-child communication?