Week 5

Question 1

What are episodic memories?

Answer 1

Memories of particular events in our life that have emotional valence

Question 2

What are semantic memories?

Answer 2

Conceptual knowledge about the meaning of things. Over time networks of associations are formed

Question 3

What is a schemata?

Answer 3

Patterns or expectations

For example when you think about a restaurant you:
- Enter
- Give your name
- Order drinks
- Discuss meu
- Talk
- Eat
- Order desert
- Leave a tip

Question 4

Hackman & Oldham’s Job Characteristics Model attempts to explain what?

Answer 4

It attempts to predict job satisfaction as a function of certain important features of jobs

Question 5

Karasek’s Demands-Control Model attempts to explain what?

Answer 5

It attempts to predict job strain as a function of job demands and worker’s ability to exert control

Question 6

What are the 5 job characteristics the job characteristics model states affects job satisfaction?

Answer 6

1) Task variety
2) Task identity (completing task and seeing results)
3) Task significance
4) Autonomy (having control over one’s work)
5) Feedback (feeling supported in one’s work)

Question 7

What does the Job-Control Model explain?

Answer 7

The consistent finding is that it is the combination of low control over work and heavy job demands which is associated with mental strain.

Question 8

What evidence supports the Job Demands-Control Model?

Answer 8

Restaurant workers experienced severest strain symptoms when they faced heavy customer demands which they were not able to control