PSYCH10 UCLA Final UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
1. Piaget's Stages of Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operations
Cognitive Devel-
opment
2. sensorimotor in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which
stage infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor
activities. develop sense of object permanence
3. preoperational in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a
stage 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 opera- in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of
tional stage age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think
logically about concrete events. diflculty about thinking abstractly or reasoning
hypothetically
5. formal opera- in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about
tional stage age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
6. short-term mem- A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20
ory (STM) 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 a memory system that contains: sensory memory, short-term memory and
Model long-term memory
9. long-term mem- the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes
ory knowledge, skills, and experiences.
10.
, explicit long term also called declarative memory, it can be verbally stated and is knowing "what."
memory episodic vs semantic
11. episodic memories of actual events or things you can visual the environment/situation of
long-term
memory
12. semantic facts and knowledge, but you do not know how/why you know it.
long-term
memory
13. implicit expressed behaviorally. knowing "how". procedural memory, classical condition-
long-term ing, priming
memory
14. procedural im- skills, knowing how to do something
plicit long-term
memory
15. classical condi- associative learning, operant learning
tioning implicit
long-term mem-
ory
16. priming implicit exposure to things influences behavior
long term memo-
ry
17. amnesia types retrograde and anterograde
18. anterograde am- cannot form new memories after the "accident/event"
nesia
19. inability to retrieve information before a particular date/time
, retrograde am-
nesia
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 recall, recognition, reaction time
what you know
24. memory failures transience, absentmindedness, blocking, memory misattribution, suggestibility,
bias, persistence
25. transcience forgetting over time
26. absentminded- lapses in our attention that result in memory failure
ness
27. interference proactive and retroactive
types
28. proactive inter- old learning gets in the way of the new
ference
29. retroactive inter- new learning gets in the way of the old
ference
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
CORRECT Answers
1. Piaget's Stages of Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operations
Cognitive Devel-
opment
2. sensorimotor in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which
stage infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor
activities. develop sense of object permanence
3. preoperational in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a
stage 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 opera- in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of
tional stage age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think
logically about concrete events. diflculty about thinking abstractly or reasoning
hypothetically
5. formal opera- in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about
tional stage age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
6. short-term mem- A limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20
ory (STM) 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 a memory system that contains: sensory memory, short-term memory and
Model long-term memory
9. long-term mem- the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes
ory knowledge, skills, and experiences.
10.
, explicit long term also called declarative memory, it can be verbally stated and is knowing "what."
memory episodic vs semantic
11. episodic memories of actual events or things you can visual the environment/situation of
long-term
memory
12. semantic facts and knowledge, but you do not know how/why you know it.
long-term
memory
13. implicit expressed behaviorally. knowing "how". procedural memory, classical condition-
long-term ing, priming
memory
14. procedural im- skills, knowing how to do something
plicit long-term
memory
15. classical condi- associative learning, operant learning
tioning implicit
long-term mem-
ory
16. priming implicit exposure to things influences behavior
long term memo-
ry
17. amnesia types retrograde and anterograde
18. anterograde am- cannot form new memories after the "accident/event"
nesia
19. inability to retrieve information before a particular date/time
, retrograde am-
nesia
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 recall, recognition, reaction time
what you know
24. memory failures transience, absentmindedness, blocking, memory misattribution, suggestibility,
bias, persistence
25. transcience forgetting over time
26. absentminded- lapses in our attention that result in memory failure
ness
27. interference proactive and retroactive
types
28. proactive inter- old learning gets in the way of the new
ference
29. retroactive inter- new learning gets in the way of the old
ference
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
