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Preoperational.
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First stage of Piaget's Cognitive Third stage of Piaget's Cognitive
1 2
Development Theory Development Theory
Final stage of Piaget's Cognitive Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive
3 4
Development Theory Development Theory
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It helps people coordinate their grammatical statements during
Syntactic coordination
conversation.
Constraint-based approach By parsing sentences and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization As a topographic map.
, Pegword technique By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Preoperational.
Cognitive Development Theory
Theory developed by Piaget Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development Cognitive.
examining language
Subdomain of cognition Attention.
describing solving problems of
information overload
Specialized area of the temporal Fusiform face area.
lobe for identifying familiar
faces
Example of localization of An area in the temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing
function in the brain faces.
Lobe integrating sensory Frontal.
information to guide behavior
Neurons responding to specific Feature detectors.
visual properties
Lobe of the brain associated Temporal.
with facial recognition, object
recognition, and language
acquisition
Refers to a person's knowledge of what words mean, how they
Lexicon
sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity The word 'light' has more than one meaning.
It helps them recognize individual words within continuous
Word segmentation
speech.
The child processes the word 'car' quickly because it is related to
Lexical Priming
'driver.'
Repeating the store's name for over a minute to remember it
Control Process in Memory
later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term A person reads a phone number and repeats it to remember it.
Memory
Focusing on the variety of pets in a pet store to remember how
Central Executive Attention
affordable they were later.
By chunking the numbers into sets and associating those sets
Chunking in Memory
with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote A child remembers being taught how to draw a lion in a
Memories classroom with blue walls and a space-themed carpet.
A person is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one
Episodic and Personal Semantic
they built was unsteady and kept falling, so now they build the
Memories Interaction
bookshelf on a level surface.
WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology Assessment
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WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology Study Outline... Psychology (Gray) C
220 terms 335 terms 16 terms
hailsbails2018 Preview remi_lawrence5 Preview Brainy_Bunch17
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Preoperational.
Choose matching term
First stage of Piaget's Cognitive Third stage of Piaget's Cognitive
1 2
Development Theory Development Theory
Final stage of Piaget's Cognitive Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive
3 4
Development Theory Development Theory
Don't know?
It helps people coordinate their grammatical statements during
Syntactic coordination
conversation.
Constraint-based approach By parsing sentences and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization As a topographic map.
, Pegword technique By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Preoperational.
Cognitive Development Theory
Theory developed by Piaget Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development Cognitive.
examining language
Subdomain of cognition Attention.
describing solving problems of
information overload
Specialized area of the temporal Fusiform face area.
lobe for identifying familiar
faces
Example of localization of An area in the temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing
function in the brain faces.
Lobe integrating sensory Frontal.
information to guide behavior
Neurons responding to specific Feature detectors.
visual properties
Lobe of the brain associated Temporal.
with facial recognition, object
recognition, and language
acquisition
Refers to a person's knowledge of what words mean, how they
Lexicon
sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity The word 'light' has more than one meaning.
It helps them recognize individual words within continuous
Word segmentation
speech.
The child processes the word 'car' quickly because it is related to
Lexical Priming
'driver.'
Repeating the store's name for over a minute to remember it
Control Process in Memory
later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term A person reads a phone number and repeats it to remember it.
Memory
Focusing on the variety of pets in a pet store to remember how
Central Executive Attention
affordable they were later.
By chunking the numbers into sets and associating those sets
Chunking in Memory
with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote A child remembers being taught how to draw a lion in a
Memories classroom with blue walls and a space-themed carpet.
A person is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one
Episodic and Personal Semantic
they built was unsteady and kept falling, so now they build the
Memories Interaction
bookshelf on a level surface.
