EXP3640 Quiz 5: Chapter 11 and Chapter 12

According to the Feature-Comparison Model, a "A robin is a bird" would be verified faster than "A penguin is a bird" because

"A penguin is a bird" requires a second stage of processing in which the defining features of "penguin" and "bird" are compared.

According to the Collins and Quillian model, which of the following sentences should be responded to the fastest during a sentence verification task?

A canary is a canary

Which of the following statements is FALSE about concepts

A concept is always captured in a single word

The statement "Susan is a widow," enables us to infer that Susan is female. This is called:

A logical inference

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding memory for text

All of the above

"Peter owned a house. The plumbing was blocked." We need to make a _________inference, to understand that the blocked plumbing mentioned in the second sentence refers to Peters' house mentioned in the first sentence.

Bridging

Semantic memory is organized to avoid excessive duplication (or repetition of information). This principle is known as:

Cognitive economy

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

According to the ________ when processing a text, a reader integrates the information contained in the text with previous knowledge and experiences.

Construction- Integration Model

Which of the following models better accounts for how we process and understand texts

Construction- Integration Model

__________ state that the meaning of a word in semantic memory is represented by a set of semantic features or attributes.

Decompositional Theories

Collins and Loftus modified the original semantic network model of Collins and Quillian to satisfy some of the criticisms of the original model. One of the strengths of Collins and Loftus model is that it is powerful enough to explain just about any result.

False

We store a representation of each instance we have previously encountered. Category membership depends on the similarity between a particular entity and the stored instances. This is the:

Instance (Exemplar) theory

Which hypothesis states that when we are reading a text only a limited number of elaborative inferences are drawn automatically?

Minimalist

Which hypothesis states that things in the common ground should be more accessible than things that are not in the common ground?

Restricted search

The following statement represents what kind of memory? "Paris is the capital of France"

Semantic memory

This model of text processing assumes that the meaning of a text is represented in terms of propositions that are connected together in memory

The Propositional Network Model

In the following passage "Greg was anxious to get to the music store. He wanted to buy a CD". The expression "He" is the_________ and "Greg" is the ___________

anaphor; antecedent

When two or more linguistic expressions refer to the same thing, we are talking about:

co-reference

The intention of a word is to as the extension of a words is to

sense; reference