Flashcard on Schemas and Language Development

Front

Which of the following is most likely to be associated with the term schema?
Options:
Top-down processing,
Bottom-up processing,
Holophrastic speech,
Boundary extension

Back

Top-down processing

Front

During an early stage of language development when one-two year old children use one word in combination with gestures and facial expressions to convey intentions of a sentence, it is referred to as:

Back

Holophrastic speech

Front

Which of the following students' statements represents the best understanding of the concept of schemas? Schemas help us anticipate what will happen in a situation., Schemas are only used for categorizing objects., Schemas are irrelevant to memory processes., Schemas are fixed and unchangeable.

Back

Schemas help us anticipate what will happen in a situation.

Front

In an art class, you draw a complete tree from memory even though you cannot see the top through the window. What have you demonstrated?

Back

Boundary extension

Front

What can we conclude about the role of schemas in memory?

Back

Schemas often operate and we often remember schema consistent information but there are exceptions in which we remember material inconsistent with a schema.

Front

If you are buying tickets at a box office for a concert, what is the sequence of specific events known as?

Back

A script

Front

What is an analog code?

Back

A representation that closely resembles the physical object.

Front

What did the Shepard and Metzler mental rotation study demonstrate?

Back

People's response times are strongly influenced by the amount of rotations needed to match figures and make same-different judgements.

Front

What has research on mental rotation shown about young people compared to elderly people?

Back

Young people are faster than elderly people in the speed of their mental rotation.

Front

From the research on imagery and size, what do we know?

Back

It takes longer to judge details on small mental images than to judge details on large mental images.