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A Chess set would be a good gift for someone in what stage of development?
Formal Operational
How can a false memory occur?
Someone forming a memory based on something they believe happened. Memories are pieced together, not recorded by the brain, therefore they can be incorrect or manipulated
How does word selection during interviews affect an eyewitness?
Wording can lead someone to an answer and present bias in questioning.
ex: Which person in the room is the criminal?
Is the criminal in this room?
Procedural memory
What stage is the following child in..
•Learning By Doing:
•Mastering Conservation/ Reversibility
•Logical thinking, but tied to the physical world
•Trial and Error Learning
Concrete Operations
When previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information
Proactive Interference
How is Erik Erikson's theories on development different than Piaget?
Erik Erikson focuses on social-emotional development
Why are eye witnesses separated before being interrogated by law enforcement?
to avoid the contamination of their timeline of events while discussing the event
Another name for short term memory is
Working memory
playing peek-a-boo with a baby can be fun because the baby is still learning object permanence. What stage is the baby in?
Sensorimotor stage
When new information impairs the retention of previously learned information
Retroactive interference
How does the encoding specificity principle impact study habits?
If information is rehearsed enough to moves from_________ memory to _________memory.
Short term memory to long term memory
Remembering a funny memory between you and a friend is an example of what kind of memory
Episodic
What stage of development are you developing these skills..
•Capable of representing the world symbolically (e.g., through language)
•Mostly using intuitive rather than logical thinking
•Conservation problem
•Theory of Mind
Preoperational Stage
Decay
What are some situations that lead to error in eyewitness identification (at least 3)?
Own-Race bias
Darkness
bad eye sight
decay
contamination
etc.
Your brain is constantly picking up information from your senses and instantly calculates what is necessary to process and remember. This instantaneous process is what phase of the memory storage process.
Sensory Register
Semantic
This is the stage in one's development where humans can finally complete complex multi-step problems
Formal operational
This type of "forgetting" is when you obtain too much information and it pushed out older information
Displacement
Ineffective encoding is sometimes called “pseudo-forgetting”. What is generally the cause of ineffective coding?
In-attention. Information has to be intentionally rehearsed or repeated in order to create long term memory.
information is in this part of memory storage for about 15-21 seconds unless its rehearsed to be remembered permanently
Short Term Memory
Why are social security numbers, credit cards, phone numbers, etc. formatted the way they are?
Digit span for remembering is 4 +or- 1
Chunking
What are the 4 types stages of development according to Piaget
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations stage