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.