Memory and Concepts
Stimulus -> Response
What is association?
Preference of babies to prefer and attend to speech that is slower, repetitive, and higher in pitch.
Psychologist known for their theories on conservation.
Who is Jean Piaget?
An approach to reading focused on identifying words based on letter sounds.
What is Phonics Approach?
A method of study used to better understand variation and rapid changes in development.
What are microgenetic studies?
Memory for events
What is episodic memory?
The purposefully coordination of attention by one individual with another for the purpose of collaboration.
What is Joint Attention?
Psychologist known for coining the term Zones of Proximal Learning.
Who is Vygotsky?
The approach to problem solving in which problem solvers take actions that get them closer to the desired goal.
What is means-end analysis?
Now considered to be a neuromyth in learning cognition.
What is the belief of learning styles?
Repetition and rehearsal
What are memory strategies?
Scientist who argued that children have a belief-desire theory of mind?
Who is Wellman?
1. At any one time, children think in a variety of ways about most phenomena
2. These varied ways of thinking compete with each other
3. Cognitive development involves gradual changes in the frequency of these ways of thinking
What are the assumptions of Overlapping Waves Theory?
1. Contiguity
2. Precedence
3. Covariation
What are the three Humean variables?
A major limit regarding population samples to generalizability
What are WEIRD populations?
The typical activities that occur during routine events
What are scripts?
The ability to judge the the accuracy or ability of a source when learning or asking for help.
What is Selective Trust?
The ability to understand that others have differing mental states, desires, and beliefs from our own.
What is Theory of Mind?
Knowing more than one type of procedure for solving a particular type of problem, and applying them adaptively to a range of situations
What is Procedural Flexibility?
Question forms that may alter or plant false memories in both children and adults
What are leading questions?
Probability that an object belongs to a particular category given present defining features
What are cue validities?
The concept that humans are innately adapted both to teach and to learn generalizable information from others’ teaching
What is Natural Pedagogy?
The suggestion that individuals who grow up in difficult environments may develop skills to solve problems in challenging situations.
What is the Hidden Talents model?
A strategy which entails setting one’s mental counter at the larger of two numbers to be added, and then counting by increments of one until the second smaller number has been added to the first.
What is Min Procedure?
Proposal that developmental outcomes are a combination of opportunities, antecedent factors, and propensity
What is the Opportunity Propensity Model?