AP PSYCHOLOGY

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ are mental representations or concepts.
A
postulate
B
theory
C
concept
D
schema
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A schema is a mental representation that enables us to organize our knowledge into categories. Our schemas help us simplify our interactions with the world. They are mental shortcuts that can both help us and hurt us. We use our schemas to learn and think more quickly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget to refer to our, well, abstract concepts. Schemas (or schemata) are units of understanding that can be hierarchically categorized as well as webbed into complex relationships with one another.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mental representations are, in short, objects and structures in the mind with semantic properties. More precisely, mental representations are information-containing, physically-realized structures in the mind that allow us to perceive, make sense of, process, understand, and recall all stimuli.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are four main types of schemas. These are centered around objects, the self, roles, and events. Schemas can be changed and reconstructed throughout a person’s life. The two processes for doing so are assimilation and accommodation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The theory of mental imagery (Kosslyn, 1994; Kosslyn et al., 2006) makes a distinction between spatial mental images and visual mental images. These two mental representations differ in the content they represent and are distinct in their anatomical localization.

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