PSYCH10 PAQUETTE SMITH UCLA FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED 2027 EDITION
1. Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operations
2. sensorimotor stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world
mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. develop sense of object permanence
3. preoperational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use
language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. do not pass conservation
tests because they have centration and a lack of reversibility. egocentric: do not pass three mountains
task.
4. concrete operational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which
children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. difficulty
about thinking abstractly or reasoning hypothetically
5. formal operational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which
people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
6. short-term memory (STM)
A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds. holds
around 5-9 chunks of information.
7. working memory
the manipulation of the short-term memory in order to use it for the task you are doing
8. Atkinson-Shiffrin Model
a memory system that contains: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory
9. long-term memory
the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and
experiences.
10. explicit long term memory
also called declarative memory, it can be verbally stated and is knowing "what." episodic vs semantic
11. episodic long-term memory
memories of actual events or things you can visual the environment/situation of
12. semantic long-term memory
facts and knowledge, but you do not know how/why you know it.
13. implicit long-term memory
expressed behaviorally. knowing "how". procedural memory, classical conditioning, priming
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, 14. procedural implicit long-term memory
skills, knowing how to do something
15. classical conditioning implicit long-term memory
associative learning, operant learning
16. priming implicit long term memory
exposure to things influences behavior
17. amnesia types
retrograde and anterograde
18. anterograde amnesia
cannot form new memories after the "accident/event"
19. retrograde amnesia
inability to retrieve information before a particular date/time
20. encoding
the process of transforming what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory
21. storage
retaining encoded information over time
22. retrieval
pulling memories out of storage. depends on cues/hints. similar context helps. for studying, if you study in
a lot of different places, you have more retrieval cues
23. how to recall what you know
recall, recognition, reaction time
24. memory failures
transience, absentmindedness, blocking, memory misattribution, suggestibility, bias, persistence
25. transcience
forgetting over time
26. absentmindedness
lapses in our attention that result in memory failure
27. interference types
proactive and retroactive
28. proactive interference
old learning gets in the way of the new
29. retroactive interference
new learning gets in the way of the old
30. blocking
failure to recall something even though you know it, like when it is at the tip of your tongue
31. schema
organized knowledge structure/mental model that we've stored in memory
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AND CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED 2027 EDITION
1. Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operations
2. sensorimotor stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world
mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities. develop sense of object permanence
3. preoperational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use
language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic. do not pass conservation
tests because they have centration and a lack of reversibility. egocentric: do not pass three mountains
task.
4. concrete operational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which
children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. difficulty
about thinking abstractly or reasoning hypothetically
5. formal operational stage
in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which
people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
6. short-term memory (STM)
A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds. holds
around 5-9 chunks of information.
7. working memory
the manipulation of the short-term memory in order to use it for the task you are doing
8. Atkinson-Shiffrin Model
a memory system that contains: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory
9. long-term memory
the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and
experiences.
10. explicit long term memory
also called declarative memory, it can be verbally stated and is knowing "what." episodic vs semantic
11. episodic long-term memory
memories of actual events or things you can visual the environment/situation of
12. semantic long-term memory
facts and knowledge, but you do not know how/why you know it.
13. implicit long-term memory
expressed behaviorally. knowing "how". procedural memory, classical conditioning, priming
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, 14. procedural implicit long-term memory
skills, knowing how to do something
15. classical conditioning implicit long-term memory
associative learning, operant learning
16. priming implicit long term memory
exposure to things influences behavior
17. amnesia types
retrograde and anterograde
18. anterograde amnesia
cannot form new memories after the "accident/event"
19. retrograde amnesia
inability to retrieve information before a particular date/time
20. encoding
the process of transforming what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory
21. storage
retaining encoded information over time
22. retrieval
pulling memories out of storage. depends on cues/hints. similar context helps. for studying, if you study in
a lot of different places, you have more retrieval cues
23. how to recall what you know
recall, recognition, reaction time
24. memory failures
transience, absentmindedness, blocking, memory misattribution, suggestibility, bias, persistence
25. transcience
forgetting over time
26. absentmindedness
lapses in our attention that result in memory failure
27. interference types
proactive and retroactive
28. proactive interference
old learning gets in the way of the new
29. retroactive interference
new learning gets in the way of the old
30. blocking
failure to recall something even though you know it, like when it is at the tip of your tongue
31. schema
organized knowledge structure/mental model that we've stored in memory
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