PSY 210 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
cognition - Answer -the activity of knowing and the processes through which knowledge
is aquired and problems are solved.
What was Piaget interested in? - Answer -How children thought, not just what they
know.
What is the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development? - Answer -
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Coordination of secondary schemes - Answer -secondary actions are coordinated in
order to achieve simple goals (ie; pushing or grasping)
Object permanence - Answer -the understanding that objects continue to exist when
they are not visible.
Symbolic capacity - Answer -the ability to use images, words, gestures to represent or
stand for objects and experiences.
Perceptual salience - Answer -understanding is driven by how things look rather than
derived from logical reasoning.
Ego-centrism - Answer -difficulty seeing things from other perspectives and assume
that what is in their mind is also what others are thinking.
What is Atkinson and Shiffrin known for? - Answer -The human information processing
system.
How does sensory register work? - Answer -The sensory register logs input, holds an
environmental stimulus for a fraction of a second. With attention information is moved to
short-term memory, holds about 7 chunks of information, short-term memory may be
passive or active, active short-term memory is working memory, stores information
while actively working on it, remembered information is moved to long-term memory.
Long term memory - Answer -relatively permanent store; knowledge of the world, past
events, information processing strategies.
How is information processed for the first time? - Answer -information made available
by the environment is processed by a series of processing systems (e.g. attention,
perception, short-term memory);these processing systems transform or alter the
information in systematic ways; the aim of research is to specify the processes and
structures that underlie cognitive performance; information processing in humans
resembles that in computers.
cognition - Answer -the activity of knowing and the processes through which knowledge
is aquired and problems are solved.
What was Piaget interested in? - Answer -How children thought, not just what they
know.
What is the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development? - Answer -
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
Coordination of secondary schemes - Answer -secondary actions are coordinated in
order to achieve simple goals (ie; pushing or grasping)
Object permanence - Answer -the understanding that objects continue to exist when
they are not visible.
Symbolic capacity - Answer -the ability to use images, words, gestures to represent or
stand for objects and experiences.
Perceptual salience - Answer -understanding is driven by how things look rather than
derived from logical reasoning.
Ego-centrism - Answer -difficulty seeing things from other perspectives and assume
that what is in their mind is also what others are thinking.
What is Atkinson and Shiffrin known for? - Answer -The human information processing
system.
How does sensory register work? - Answer -The sensory register logs input, holds an
environmental stimulus for a fraction of a second. With attention information is moved to
short-term memory, holds about 7 chunks of information, short-term memory may be
passive or active, active short-term memory is working memory, stores information
while actively working on it, remembered information is moved to long-term memory.
Long term memory - Answer -relatively permanent store; knowledge of the world, past
events, information processing strategies.
How is information processed for the first time? - Answer -information made available
by the environment is processed by a series of processing systems (e.g. attention,
perception, short-term memory);these processing systems transform or alter the
information in systematic ways; the aim of research is to specify the processes and
structures that underlie cognitive performance; information processing in humans
resembles that in computers.
