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