CHAPTER 2 - ANSWERSCHAPTER 2
Who created a broad theoretical system for the development of cognitive abilities? -
ANSWERSJean Piaget
What is epistemology? - ANSWERSStudy of development of abstract thought on the
basis of a biological or innate substrate
According to Piaget, what are the four major stages that lead to the capacity for adult
thought and and what age range does each occur? - ANSWERSSensorimotor (birth to 2
years), preoperational thought (2 to 7 years), concrete operations (7 to 11 years), and
formal operations (11 through adolescence)
In what stage of Piaget development does the child understand that melted ice in the
form of water can turn back to water (reversibility)? - ANSWERSConcrete operations
A child believe that bad thoughts cause accidents. What is this called and in what stage
of Piaget development does it occur? - ANSWERSPhenomenalistic causality;
Preoperational thought
What are the critical developmental achievements of the sensorimotor stage? -
ANSWERSObject permanence and symbolization
A child recognizes that when a ball of clay is rolled into a sausage shape there is still
the same amount of clay. What ability is this child demonstrating and during what stage
of Piaget development does this occur? - ANSWERSConservation; Concrete operations
What is the tendency to endow physical events and objects with life-like psychological
attributes and in what Piaget stage of development does this occur? -
ANSWERSAnimistic thinking; Preoperational
In the Piaget stage of concrete operations, what is egocentric thought replaced by? -
ANSWERSOperational thought which involves dealing with a wide array of information
outside of the child. Children can now see things from someone's else perspective
,All horses are mammals, all mammals are warm blooded, therefore all horses are warm
blooded...this is what type of reasoning and during what stage of Piaget development
does it occur? - ANSWERSSyllogistic reasoning; Concrete operations
Who studied infant attachment and separation and pointed out that mother-child
attachment was an essential medium of human interaction that had important
consequences for later development? - ANSWERSJohn Bowlby
Who demonstrated the emotional and behavioral effects of isolating monkeys form birth
and keeping them from forming attachments? - ANSWERSHarry Harlow
Mary Ainsworth is know for describing what 3 main types of insecure attachment? -
ANSWERSInsecure-avoident, insecure-ambivalent, and insecure-disorganized
65% of infants are securely attached by what age? - ANSWERS25 months
What are the three types of signal indicators in infants? - ANSWERSHunger, anger, and
pain
What are the three sequences of behavior patterns in children that are operated from
their mothers for long periods of time? - ANSWERSProtest, despair, and detachment
In Pavlovian conditioning, what are the following called...food, bell, new response to the
bell, and the natural response to the food itself? - ANSWERSUnconditional stimulus,
conditional stimulus, conditional response, and unconditional response
Who was Pavlovian conditioning developed by? - ANSWERSIvan Pavlov
Who was operant conditioning developed by? - ANSWERSB.F. Skinner
What is Pavlovian conditioning? - ANSWERSOccurs when neutral stimuli are
associated with a psychologically significant event
What is operant conditioning? - ANSWERSOccurs when a behavior (instead of a
stimulus) is associated with a psychologically significant event
What is sign tracking? - ANSWERSWhen a CS signals a positive US, the CS will tend
to evoke approach behaviors
What is extinction? - ANSWERSLearned behavior decreases when the US or reinforcer
A person who gets sick of drinking an alcoholic beverage and consequently learns to
hate the flavor is an example of what type of conditioning? - ANSWERSPavlovian
conditioning
, Give an example of a compensatory response? - ANSWERSAlcohol causes a drop in
body temperature, a conditioned response to a CS associated with alcohol is typically
an increase in body temperature
What is it called when some stimuli are especially effective signals for some USs
because evolution has made them that way? - ANSWERSPreparedness
How does extinction occur? - ANSWERSConditioned response decreases if the CS is
presented repeatedly without the US after conditioning
How does counterconditioning occur? - ANSWERSCS is paired with a very different
US/UR
What is a drug that can be used to improve long-term potentiation and can possibly
facilitate extinction learning in humans undergoing exposure therapy for anxiety
disorders and which receptor does it work on? - ANSWERSD-cycloserine; N-methyl-D-
aspartate (NMDA)
What is a reinforcer? - ANSWERSAny event that could be shown to increase the
strength of an operant if it was made a consequence of the operant
What is incentive learning and give and example? - ANSWERSProcess of learning
about the effects the reinforcer has on the motivational state; Hunger invigorated the
instrumental action only if the animal had previously experienced the reinforcer in that
state
Figure 2.3-3 - ANSWERSPage 108-109
What biological changes occur during short-lasting plasticity? - ANSWERSIncrease in
neurotransmitter release
What biological changes occur during long-lasting plasticity? - ANSWERSNew protein
synthesis, physical growth of neural processes, and an increase in the number of
synaptic connections
What are the main cortical pathways for visual information starting after the primary
visual cortex? - ANSWERSVentrally to the inferotemporal cortex (identification of visual
objects) and dorsally to the parietal cortex (processes information about spatial location)
Alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome causes amnesia due to destruction in what area of the
brain? - ANSWERSDiencephalon
Figure 2.4-3 - ANSWERSPage 114
Amnesia effects what kind of memory? - ANSWERSDeclarative memory