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Which approach to development takes into account the child interacting with the environment.
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Constructivism.
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At which of Piaget's developmental stages are kids able to think abstractly and use hypothetical situations?
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Formal operational stage
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The ability to know that others have mental states, that they can differ from your own, and that those beliefs can be untrue is known as
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Theory of Mind
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The word length effect shows that it is more difficult to remember
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A list of long words than a list of short words
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What three processes does working memory span influence?
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1. reading comprehension
2. inhibiting no-longer-relevant information 3. blocking out distracting information |
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A task with the instructions "Read the following
words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then
write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying
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The phonological loop
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According to McGeoch's interference theory of forgetting, what are the three causes of interference?
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1. response competition
2. set 3. altered context |
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What are three pieces of evidence in favor of consolidation theory?
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A. the finding that memory is better if we sleep
(while being allowed to dream) between study and test relative to
staying awake between study and test
b. the finding that memory is better if we sleep (while not being allowed to dream) during study and test relative to staying awake between study and test c. the finding that individuals who recover from retrograde amnesia never remember anything that happened to them in the moments before their accident |
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What is perseveration?
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The consolidation of information to long-term memory
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Bransford and Johnson's study had participants hear
a passage which turned out to be about a man on the street serenading
his girlfriend in a tall building. The wording of the passage made it
difficult to understand, but looking at a picture made it easier to
understand. The results of this study illustrated the importance of
____ in forming reliable long-term memories.
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An organizational context during learning
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____ is an average representation of a category.
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A prototype
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In spreading activation models of memory, concepts are represented as
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Nodes
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What are three reasons that distributed practice improves memory relative to massed practice?
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A. Encoding variability: studying things in multiple new contexts leads to multiple retrieval paths
b. Information is more likely to be consolidated between multiple study sessions c. Individuals are better able to attend to things in short bursts |
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True of False, Distinctive information is more difficult to remember than organized information
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False
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Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if
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The type of encoding and type of retrieval match
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