Exam 1 Vocab

Question 1

Structuralism

Answer 1

“What are the ingredients of the cake”

Question 2

Functionalism

Answer 2

“I don’t care what’s in the cake, how does it taste”

Question 3

Empirical Evidence

Answer 3

Observable

Question 4

Falsifiability

Answer 4

Someone says something that can’t be proven

Question 5

Mnemonic

Answer 5

Something used to remember something

Question 6

Encoding

Answer 6

Put info into the brain

Question 7

Retrieval

Answer 7

Get info from brain

Question 8

Semantic Memory

Answer 8

What we know

Question 9

Episodic memory

Answer 9

Experiences

Question 10

Stereotype

Answer 10

Schema for a certain group of people

Question 11

Consolidation

Answer 11

Memories becoming stable in the brain when you sleep

Question 12

Associative networks (semantic networks)

Answer 12

Network of related ideas and concepts

Question 13

Priming

Answer 13

Activating something in your memory

Question 14

“PoRn” Memories

Answer 14

Proactive=Old interferes with new

Retroactive=New interferes with old

Question 15

Misattribution

Answer 15

Hearing someone tell you something but thinking you heard it from someone else

Question 16

Suggestibility

Answer 16

Things are suggested to you and you think of it as if you heard it in your own

Question 17

Habituation

Answer 17

Gradually decreasing CR to a CS due to repeated exposure

Question 18

Generalization

Answer 18

Responding the same way to similar stimuli

Question 19

Positive

Answer 19

Adding something to the situation

Question 20

Negative

Answer 20

Taking something away

Question 21

Social learning theory

Answer 21

Albert Bandura