Cognition Flashcards
who was associated with the idea about cognitive development
jean piaget
sensorimotor stage
birth - 2
interact with the world through sensory input and motor activities, putting things in their mouth
object permanence means they understand objects exist even when you don’t see them that’s why peek a boo is so fascinating to them
circular reactions is when they continue to drop something because it had an interesting fact
stranger anxiety also occurs
perioperational stage
ages 2-7
very minimal logical thinking
egocentrism - can’t imagine the world from the view of others so that’s why they hate sharing
centration or ability to just focus on one thing so they think two slices of pizza is more even if they’re smaller
concrete operation stage
ages 7-11
develop logical reasoning and taking others perspectives
do better when its in regards to concrete objects
formal operational stage
11 - 16
fully engage in abstract logic
how does a schema relate to a cow being red when they’re usually black
organize information from the outside world and then responding
you can conclude that it is not a cow because it is not black and this would be assimilation
or you could conclude that animals have additional colours which would be accomodatioon
Piagets stages end at 16 so what kind of intelligence occurs after that
fluid - problem solving skills that can be applied to new situations, reason on the fly
crystallized is the ability to use ones knowledge to solve problems - not just memorization has to do with applying what one knows
what does Piaget seem to value about cognition
logical and abstract reasoning
ability to engage in operations of mental manipulation of objects
wasn’t interested in things like emotion and the influence of other people
use pharmacy examples to describe problem solving strategies hint T&A A D I A
trial and error self explanatory
algorithms - think cancer care has a set algorithm for breast cancer treatment
deductive reasoning - st johns wort increases serotinin so it must interact with SSRIs
inductive reasoning - people taking st johns wort and SSRIS get serotonin syndrome so it must increase serotonin and interact with SSRIs
analogies - seen it before so you know how to deal with it
`our mental set is the framework we use to problem solve how does dunckers candle problem show a certain type of fixation
given a candle and match box and thumbtacks and have to put it on the wall without the wax dripping
can’t picture the matchbox as a candle holder is an example of functional fixedness
how do you show belief preservance
when Vinny proves you wrong you just deny it even more
when you look back at the practice mcat questions they look easy what is this an example of
hindsight bias
the day you started using your polysporin ear drops the pain in the ear and headaches went away so you assumed it was the polysporin what is this an example of
causation bias
difference between heuristics and biases
a short cut used to problem solve that often work well enough to problem solve
bias are more just patterns that affect our decision making
difference between the representativeness and availability heuristic
represent - police officer more likely to think someone is a criminal because they look sketchy we are making a decision he is guilty based on how he looks
avail - a med student thinks they have some rare disease just because they have been studying it, get diarrhea and think colon cancer comes to mind quickly
