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One of the key properties of theapproach is that a specific concept is represented by activity that is distributed over many units in the network.


A) semantic network
B) hierarchical
C) spreading activation
D) connectionist

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


A) Family resemblance
B) Hierarchical organization
C) Cognitive economy
D) Spreading activation

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


A) superordinate level to basic level
B) basic level to subordinate level
C) subordinate level to basic level
D) basic level to superordinate level

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Explain cognitive economy as it applies to the semantic network approach.How are properties or characteristics represented within the semantic network? How is category relation represented within the semantic network? Explain how atypical category members are represented.

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If we were conducting an experiment on the effect knowledge has on categorization,we might compare the results of expert and non-expert groups.Suppose we compare horticulturalists to people with little knowledge about plants.If we asked the groups to name,as specifically as possible,five different plants seen around campus,we would predict that the expert group would primarily label plants on thelevel,while the non-expert group would primarily label plants on thelevel.


A) superordinate;subordinate
B) superordinate;basic
C) subordinate;basic
D) basic;subordinate

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Which of the following statements is NOT cited in your text as a reason why categories are useful?


A) Categories provide definitions of groups of related objects.
B) Categories help us understand behaviors that we might otherwise find baffling.
C) Categories serve as a valuable tool for making inferences about things that belong to other categories.
D) Categories have been called "pointers to knowledge" because once you know an object's category,you know a lot of general things about it.

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Which of the following is not one of the types of units found within a parallel distributed processing model?


A) Hidden units
B) Input units
C) Working units
D) Output units

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Explain priming in terms of spreading activation.Using a description of a lexical decision task,give an example of a prime-stimulus pair that would produce priming and another pair that would not.What do these priming effects tell us about categorization?

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is a "typical" member of a category.


A) A prototype
B) An exemplar
C) A unit
D) A component

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Imagine that a young child is just learning about the category "dog." Thus far,she has experienced only two dogs,one a small poodle and the other a large 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


A) matches the size of the poodle but is of a different breed.
B) is a dog that does not bark.
C) matches an exemplar of one of the dogs she has experienced.
D) is similar to an "average" for the dogs she has encountered.

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


A) these networks learn by a process that is analogous to the way a child learns about the world by making mistakes and being corrected.
B) learning a new concept does not interfere with remembering a previously learned concept.
C) damage to the system does not completely disrupt its operation.
D) learning can be generalized between similar concepts to facilitate future learning.

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Describe the prototype approach to categorization.Define prototype and give examples for the category of "clothing." Mention items that are high and low on prototypicality in the clothing category.Finally,describe the experiments that Rosch and her colleagues did to demonstrate the connections between prototypicality and behavior.

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


A) Semantic network theory
B) The prototype approach
C) Parallel distributed processing theory
D) Enhancement due to priming

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People playing the parlor game "20 Questions" often use hierarchical organization strategies.One player asks up to 20 yes/no questions to determine the identity of an object another player has selected.The player's questions usually start as general and get more specific as the player approaches a likely guess.Initial questions asked by a player are often one of three questions: "Is it an animal?" "Is it a vegetable?" and "Is it a mineral?" Each of these three questions describes which level of categorization?


A) Typical
B) Basic
C) Subordinate
D) Superordinate

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


A) the word "fruit" will lead to a larger priming effect for banana than for kiwi.
B) when people are asked to list all the fruits they can think of,kiwi will usually appear on their list before banana.
C) neither kiwi nor banana are likely to be the fruit "closest" to the prototype of the fruit category.
D) people will have a similar number of exemplars for kiwi and banana.

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Gallese and colleagues (1996) noted that certain types of neurons,now calledneurons,activated when a monkey grasped food on a tray,but also activated when they watched the experimenter grasping food on a tray.


A) imitative
B) anticipatory
C) redundant
D) mirror

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


A) Exemplar
B) Network
C) Typicality
D) Prototype

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Rosch and coworkers conducted an experiment in which participants were shown a category label,like car or vehicle,and then,after a brief delay,saw a picture.The participants' task was to indicate as rapidly as possible whether the picture was a member of the category.Their results showed


A) the priming effect was most robust for superordinate level categories.
B) the priming effect was most robust for basic level categories.
C) no measurable priming effect.
D) the priming effect was the same for superordinate and basic level categories.

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If you say that "a Labrador retriever is my idea of a typical dog," you would be using theapproach to categorization.


A) exemplar
B) definitional
C) family resemblance
D) prototype

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Which of the following represents a basic level item?


A) Musical instrument
B) Guitar
C) Rock guitar
D) Paul McCartney's bass guitar

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