Niu psyc 102 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NIU PSYC 102 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT What mental processes do humans use to think, remember, and communicate? Humans use cognitive processes to think, remember, and communicate. What mental framework helps us organize and make sense of new information? A schema is a mental framework that helps us organize and interpret new information. How do we incorporate new experiences into our existing knowledge structures? When we encounter new experiences, we assimilate...

cognition - all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering and communicating. schema - a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information assimilation - interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas accommodation - adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information Jean Piaget - his studies led him to believe a child's mind develops through a series of stages sensorimotor stage - in Piagets theory the st...