Quiz 9: PSY 410

In a lexical decision task, participants have to decide whether

a presented stimulus is a word

Items high on prototypicality have ___________ family resemblances.

strong

According to Collins and Quillian's semantic network model, it should take longest to verify which statement below?

A turtle is an animal.

The prototype approach to categorization states that a standard representation of a category is based on

category members that have been encountered in the past.

Learning in the connectionist network is represented by adjustments to network

connection weights.

If you say that "a Labrador retriever is my idea of a typical dog," you would be using the ___________ approach to categorization.

exemplar

______ are actual members of a category that a person has encountered in the past

exemplars

Which of the following represents a basic level item?

guitar

According to the typicality effect

items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group.

According to the sensory-functional hypothesis, our ability to differentiate living things and artifacts depends on a semantic memory system that distinguishes _____ and one that distinguishes _____.

sensory attributes; function

Collins and Quillian's semantic network model predicts that the reaction time to verify "a canary is a bird" is ___________ the reaction time to verify "an ostrich is a bird."

the same as

The process of back propagation is most closely associated with

connectionist networks.