Cognitive folder

Some IB question to get you going:

-entity "The cognitive perspective has risen in status amongst psychologist as it is appropriate to all of the methods of investigation in psychology.entity" (1999)

Use psychological studies to assess the validity of this claim

-Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the conceptual frameworks for:

(A) The behavioral perspective (25 marks)

and

(B) The cognitive perspective (25 marks)

-Compare two theoretical approaches to how humans acquire language. Which of the two approaches has more empirical support? (1997)

-Identify the similarities and differences between two theories of language acquisition. (1995)

-Critically evaluate the view that egocentrism is an important part of cognitive development in children. (1995)

Explain and evaluate the concept of entity" critical " of development. What are the advantages and disadvantages of basing theory of development on critical stages? (1997)

stagesentity -How important is social interaction for a young child's cognitive development? (1997)

PowerPoint reviews

• My original lecture notes
• an Introduction to cognitive psychology
• A good overview from university notes
• Lecture on perception and sample on perception
• Lecture on Memory and visual memory. I have also found several excellent lectures on memory: general, long term, recall
• Lecture on attention
• And then there is language development--including Piaget, a university student's piaget, and vgotsky

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