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6. In Piaget's cognitive adaptation theory, what is assimilation?

  • Fitting reality into ones cognitive organisation
  • The mechanism by which cognitive organisations are applied to reality
  • Adjustments to cognitive organisation resulting from IRL demans

7. Which of these are two methods used to study memory in preverbal infants?

  • Visual Paired Comparison task (VPC) and habituation
  • Rey figure task and Visual Paired Comparison task (VPC)
  • Classical conditioning and Rey figure task
  • Habituation and Rey figure task

8. Which of these is NOT a methodology used for studying development as self-modification

  • Eye movements
  • Reaction time
  • Evaluation of errors
  • Microgenetic method

9. Which of these are two salient characteristics of Information processing theories

  • Limited processing speed and attentional capacity, flexible ways of working around limitations
  • Limited processing speed and attentional capacity, limited ways of working around limitations
  • Limited neural energy constrained by cognitive elements (e.g attention)

10. What is analogical reasoning?

  • Cognitive tools, which can be either symbolic or material
  • Comparing items that may appear different at first to extract deeper regularities
  • Generations of predictions and hypothesis testing

11. What characterises a SFTcore information processing theory?

  • Computers as representing the flow of information through the cognitive system
  • Computer as a metaphor for thought
  • Computer as a simulation of thought
  • Studying human behaviour using experimental methods

12. Which is not a major topic for IP accounts?

  • Memory
  • Problem solving & reasoning
  • Language learning
  • Spatial reasoning
  • Attention
  • Metacognition

13. In a study of control of attention by Ruff & Capozolli (2003), which age group were more distracted in single toy > multiple toy conditions?

  • Equally distracted in al conditions
  • 26 months
  • 10 months

14. What characterises a Hrd core information processing theory?

  • Studying human behaviour using experimental methods
  • Computer as a simulation of thought
  • Computer as a metaphor for thought
  • Computers as representing the flow of information through the cognitive system