Piaget
Schemas +1
Memory
Vygotsky
Grab Bag
100
What we use to organize thoughts and experiences.
What are schemas?
100
Assimilation is
What is fitting an experience into an existing schema?
100
False memories are
What are incorrect memories?
100
What ZPD stands for.
What is the zone of proximal development?
100
Metacognition is
What is thinking about and regulating one's own cognitive activities?
200
A child with issues with ___ would choose the broken cookies because they believe it to be more cookies.
What is conservation?
200
Accommodation is
What is changing your schema to account for new experiences?
200
Regarding memory in infancy, deferred imitation is
What is when infants see an action and then reenact it?
200
Scaffolding is defined as
What is what an adult does to help the child move through the ZPD?
Further explanation: teaching the child tasks that are developmentally just out of reach and helping them complete it
200
This type of thinking decreases with age
What is divergent thinking?
300
Imagine you are a child in the preoperational stage... what would the doll see and why?
What is the building the child is looking at?
Children in the preoperational stage are egocentric and have a lack of perspective-taking, so they would assume the doll sees what they see.
300
The schema that would apply to this photo would be
What are shoes and/or footwear?
300
In adolescence, there may be things that affect working memory, such as
What is...
- the strength of their memory when young
- substance use
300
Private speech is also known as
What is self-directed speech?
300
Regarding infantile amnesia, it is the difficulty to remember events that happened before what age?
What is age three?
400
In the sensorimotor period, object permanence develops, which allows avoidance of what error?
What is the A not B error?
400
Disequilibrium is caused when
What is when a person encounters something that does not fit into an existing schema?
400
Provide an example of verbatim and gist memory.
Answers vary, but one needs to be general details of an event, and the other specific details.
400
How is private speech beneficial?
What is young children who talk to themselves are able to carry out difficult tasks more successfully?
400
The Theory of Core Knowledge and the Information Processing Theory have this in common
What is that development is continuous?
500
Identify two stages of development according to Piaget with age ranges.
What are...? (Multiple answer options shown below)
Sensorimotor stage (birth-2 years)
Preoperational stage (roughly 2-7)
Concrete operations stage (roughly 7-11)
Formal operations stage (11+)
500
There are four areas of core knowledge according to Spelke and Kinzler (2007), name two of them.
What are...? (answer choices below)
Knowledge that an object moves as a cohesive unit
Knowledge that agents act purposefully toward a goal
Knowledge of numbers
Knowledge of spatial relations
500
Two types of memories that the Fuzzy Trace Theory contains and what the characteristics are
What are gist and verbatim memories? Gist memories are the general details of an event, while verbatim memories are the specific details of it.
500
When does private speech become internalized?
What is age four?
Other acceptable answers:
- Age seven it is mostly internalized
- Beyond 10, it is almost entirely internalized
500
Infantile amnesia can occur for a variety of reasons, name 2
What is...
- undeveloped brain structures
- a lack of language skills
- differences in encoding and retrieval processes