Quiz on Schemas and Language Development

Which of the following is most likely to be associated with the term schema?

• Top-down processing

• Bottom-up processing

• Holophrastic speech

• Boundary extension

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:

• Holophrastic speech

• Babbling

• Two-word stage

• Cooing

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.

Suppose you are in an art class, and you have been instructed to draw from memory the scene you see from a window in your own bedroom. Although you cannot see the top of a tree through the bedroom window, you still draw the complete tree. You have demonstrated:

• Boundary extension

• Holophrastic speech

• Top-down processing

• Constructive model of memory

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

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

• Schemas never operate and we always remember material inconsistent with a schema.

• Schemas always operate and we never remember material inconsistent with a schema.

• Schemas sometimes operate and we never remember schema consistent information.

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

• A script

• A schema

• A scenario

• A schedule

What is an analog code?

• A representation that closely resembles the physical object.

• A representation that is completely different from the physical object.

• A representation that is abstract and symbolic.

• A representation that is only used in digital formats.

What did the Shepard and Metzler mental rotation study demonstrate?

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

• People's response times are not influenced by the amount of rotations needed.

• People's response times are faster when figures are different.

• People's response times are slower when figures are the same.

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

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

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

• Young people and elderly people have the same speed of mental rotation.

• Young people are faster in physical rotation but not mental rotation.

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

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

• It takes the same time to judge details on small and large mental images.

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

• Size does not affect the time to judge details on mental images.