Cognitivism

Memory is defined as the ability of coding, _______ and retrieving information

Which of the following is NOT a task associated with the attention system?

• Maintaining a state of alert

• Detecting changes in stimuli

• Understanding the stimulus deeply

• Choosing relevant stimuli

What's the most primitive part of the brain?

• Occipital lobe

• Hippotalamus

• Limbic brain

• Instinctual brain

Which of the following is NOT a function of the RIGHT hemispere?

• Specialized in space

• Sequential

• Global

• Pragmatic language

According to Vygotsky, what's the ZPD?

• Zone of Proximal Development, what a person can achieve without help

• The equivalent of disequilibrium in Piaget

• Zone of Proximal Development, what a person can achieve with help

• A condition in which a child is unable to fend for themselves despite being old enough to do so

What's the difference between assimilation and accomodation?

• Assimilation is the final stage of learning, while accomodation is the process of forming new connections.

• They're synonyms, there's no difference between the two

• Assimilation is a more complex process

• Accomodation is compatible with behaviorism, while assimilation isn't

What's the consequence of a new situation?

• New skills

• New language

• Confusion or disequilibrium

• New physical abilities

What abilities can we acquire with the help of others?

• All abilities

• New language and information, but no new physical abilities

• Mathematics, history and geography (related to time and space)

• It depends on the current stage of development of the person

What's the difference between Behaviorism and Cognitivism?

According to Piaget, children learn by...

• creating new connections

• interacting with the environment

• facing new situations

• all are correct