PSY 452 Chapter 9
Which of the following would be in a basic level category?
Truck
When a participant is asked to list examples of the category vegetables, it is most likely that
a carrot would be named before eggplant
In a lexical decision task, participants have to decide whether
a presented stimulus is a word
The ____ model includes associations between concepts and the property of spreading activation.
semantic network
One of the key properties of the ___ approach is that a specific concept is represented by activity that is distributed over many units in the network.
connectionist
If a system has the property of graceful degradation, this means that
damage to the system doesn't completely disrupt its operation
If you say that "a Labrador retriever is my idea of a typical dog," you would be using the _____ approach to categorization.
exemplar
In the semantic network model, a specific category or concept is represented at a
node
Your text describes cross-cultural studies of categorization with U.S. and Itzaj participants. Given the results of these studies, we know that if asked to name basic level objects for a category, U.S. participants would answer ____ and Itzaj participants would answer ____.
tree; oak