PSYC 2101: Midterm Vocabulary
questions well answered to pass
declarative memory - correct answer ✔✔the cognitive information retrieved from explicit
memory; knowledge that can be declared
(memorization)
associative memory - correct answer ✔✔an association between stimulus and response, taken
to indicate evidence of consciousness in animals
(examples)
conceptual memory - correct answer ✔✔-memory relative to conceptual development
-natural, artificial, and hierarchical concepts
-memories of schematic categories
-memories of prototypes
-memories of conceptual rules of assimilation
Natural Order Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔the universe isn't entirely random, there are
patterns
Determinism Principle - correct answer ✔✔these patterns (of the natural order hypothesis)
reflect cause and effect relationships
"everything happens for a reason"
,ex: internal validity
Comprehension principle - correct answer ✔✔these cause and effect relationships (of the
determinism principle) are knowable/ can be understood
the three necessary assumptions of the scientific method - correct answer ✔✔natural order
hypothesis, determinism principle, comprehension
3 criteria for evaluating evidence - correct answer ✔✔empirical, objective, and systematic
empirical - correct answer ✔✔observable
objective - correct answer ✔✔subject to corroboration, outside the individual
systematic - correct answer ✔✔orderly and replicable/ reliable
steps in scientific method - correct answer ✔✔topic - question - constructs- measures
operationalization - correct answer ✔✔the process of assigning a precise method for measuring
a term being examined for use in a particular study
research hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔The hypothesis that the variables under investigation
are related in the population - that the observed effect based on sample data is true in the
population.
Aka "alternative hypothesis"
, Relationship between 2 or more variables
null hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔the hypothesis that there is no significant difference
between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental
error.
says there is no relationship
**we predict there will be a hypothesis but that's not always the case**
the research process - correct answer ✔✔assimilation - conceptualization- organization-
presentation of ideas
assimilation - correct answer ✔✔take information from difference sources and internalize it
taking relevant information from multiple potential sources
"literature review'
based on a theme (aka the hypothesis)
conceptualization - correct answer ✔✔Development of a model that shows variables and
hypothesized or proposed relationships between variables
come up with new ideas
steps of assimilation - correct answer ✔✔1. identify sources of information
questions well answered to pass
declarative memory - correct answer ✔✔the cognitive information retrieved from explicit
memory; knowledge that can be declared
(memorization)
associative memory - correct answer ✔✔an association between stimulus and response, taken
to indicate evidence of consciousness in animals
(examples)
conceptual memory - correct answer ✔✔-memory relative to conceptual development
-natural, artificial, and hierarchical concepts
-memories of schematic categories
-memories of prototypes
-memories of conceptual rules of assimilation
Natural Order Hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔the universe isn't entirely random, there are
patterns
Determinism Principle - correct answer ✔✔these patterns (of the natural order hypothesis)
reflect cause and effect relationships
"everything happens for a reason"
,ex: internal validity
Comprehension principle - correct answer ✔✔these cause and effect relationships (of the
determinism principle) are knowable/ can be understood
the three necessary assumptions of the scientific method - correct answer ✔✔natural order
hypothesis, determinism principle, comprehension
3 criteria for evaluating evidence - correct answer ✔✔empirical, objective, and systematic
empirical - correct answer ✔✔observable
objective - correct answer ✔✔subject to corroboration, outside the individual
systematic - correct answer ✔✔orderly and replicable/ reliable
steps in scientific method - correct answer ✔✔topic - question - constructs- measures
operationalization - correct answer ✔✔the process of assigning a precise method for measuring
a term being examined for use in a particular study
research hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔The hypothesis that the variables under investigation
are related in the population - that the observed effect based on sample data is true in the
population.
Aka "alternative hypothesis"
, Relationship between 2 or more variables
null hypothesis - correct answer ✔✔the hypothesis that there is no significant difference
between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental
error.
says there is no relationship
**we predict there will be a hypothesis but that's not always the case**
the research process - correct answer ✔✔assimilation - conceptualization- organization-
presentation of ideas
assimilation - correct answer ✔✔take information from difference sources and internalize it
taking relevant information from multiple potential sources
"literature review'
based on a theme (aka the hypothesis)
conceptualization - correct answer ✔✔Development of a model that shows variables and
hypothesized or proposed relationships between variables
come up with new ideas
steps of assimilation - correct answer ✔✔1. identify sources of information
