CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE

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

A turtle is an animal.

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

Exemplars

Which of the following is a connectionist model proposing that concepts are represented by activity that is spread across a network?

Parallel distributed processing theory

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

artifact

Imagine that a young child is just learning about the category "dog." Thus far, she has experienced only two dogs, one a poodle and the other a German shepherd. On her third encounter with a dog, she will be LEAST likely to correctly categorize the animal as a dog if that animal

is a breed of dog that is hairless and teacup-sized.

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

semantic

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

synapse activity

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

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

truck

Rosch found that participants respond more rapidly in a same-different task when presented with "good" examples of colors such as "red" and "green" than when they are presented with "poor" examples such as "pink" and "light green." The result of this experiment was interpreted as supporting the ___________ approach to categorization.

prototype