cognitive exam #4

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.

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

semantic network

Which of the following theories on conceptual representation combines both sensory and motor experiences

the embodied approach

For the category "fruit," people give a higher typicality rating to "banana" than to "kiwi." Knowing that, we can also reason that

the word "fruit" will lead to a larger priming effect for banana than for kiwi.

Which of the following is NOT a property of the connectionist approach?

Before any learning has occurred in the network, the weights in the network all equal zero.

According to Rosch, the ___________ level of categories reflects people's everyday experience.

basic

One beneficial property of connectionist networks is graceful degradation, which refers to the property that

damage to the system does not completely disrupt its operation

The four proposals addressing the representation of concepts in the brain all agree that the information is ________.

distributed

Priming occurs when presentation of one stimulus

facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows closely in time.

Which of the following is NOT associated with the semantic network model?

family resemblance

Spreading activation

primes associated concepts

Which approach to categorization involves forming a standard representation based on an average of category members that a person has encountered in the past?

prototype

Based on the information your textbook provided about different category types, jumping from ___________ categories results in the largest gain in information.

super ordinate level to the basic level

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

turtle is an animal

An advantage of the exemplar approach over the prototype approach is that the exemplar approach provides a better explanation of the ___________ effect.

typicality