PSY 2105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Recognition Memory, Flowchart, Psy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Julie Desjardins

Document Summary

Setup: 50 multiple choice questions, 3 short answer questions. First 2 questions are worth 2. 5 marks and the last is worth 5. Not cumulative marks: still need to know piaget, only 1 question from the guest lecture. Principles of knowledge: organization and functional significance: when a child receives new information about how to understand the. Language is a verbal reflection of the individuals" conceptual understanding knowledge around them so they can adapt to the world (i. e. they make sense of the information they are organizing) Information processing: considers the psychological activities that allow children to deal with new information. 2 methods of doing so, flowchart (single specified output) and computer methods (multiple outputs) Note: different people can experience the same situation differently because it is determined by how you process the information in your short-term memory. Recognition memory: the understanding that a current stimulus has been encountered in the past.