chapter 9

The definitional approach to categorization

doesn't work well for most natural objects like birds, trees, and plants.

A person who has been diagnosed with ________ dementia has difficulty recognizing both living things and artifacts.

semantic

The ___________ model includes associations between concepts and the property of spreading activation.

semantic network

Which of the following reaction time data sets illustrates the typicality effect for the bird category, given the following three trials? (NOTE: Read data sets as RTs for Trial 1: Trial 2: Trial 3) Trial 1: An owl is a bird. Trial 2: A penguin is a bird. Trial 3: A sparrow is a bird.

583: 653: 518 ms

Which of the following terms is most closely associated with semantic networks?

Cognitive economy

According to the connectionist model, which of the following is impacted by connection weight?

Synapse activity

Which of the following would be in a basic level category?

Truck

In a lexical decision task, participants have to decide whether

a presented stimulus is a word.

A task for determining how prototypical an object is would be

a task where participants rate the extent to which each member represents the category title.

One criticism of the embodied approach is that it doesn't explain how humans can recognize ________.

abstractions

In the context of cognitive psychology and conceptual models, a tool would be classified as a(n) ________.

artifact

Which of the following lies at the foundation of a connectionist network?

learning

In the semantic network model, a specific category or concept is represented at a

node

Spreading activation

primes associated concepts.

Collins and Quillian explained the results of priming experiments by introducing the concept of ___________ into their network model.

spreading activation