ch 7 &8 3rd quiz

Question 1

taxonomy of memory

Answer 1

Declarative memory includes what can be declared or brought into mind as a proposition or an image.
procedural memory includes motor skills, cognitive skills, simple classical conditioning, as well as habituation, sensitization, various perceptual after effects, and other instances where the facility for engaging specific cognitive operations is improved by experience..

Question 2

episodic memory

Answer 2

memory related with temporally dated events.

e.g., what did you eat last night? what movie did you see last weekend?

Question 3

autobiographical memory

Answer 3

episodic memory of personal events from the past.

e.g., memory from your childhood

Question 4

flash bulb memory

Answer 4

episodic memory of shocking or impressive events

e.g., memory associated with assassination of j.f. kennedy

Question 5

Semantic memory

Answer 5

Knowledge related with what (facts), Knowing what

e.g., knowledge about psychology, American history, geography, etc

Question 6

Procedural memory (Procedural knowledge)

Answer 6

Knowledge related with skills (how).

e.g., how to drive a car, how to ride on a bike, how to cook, how to play musical instruments, how to play sports, etc.

Question 7

Semantic Network (Collins & Quillian)

Answer 7

(1) Basic structure of semantic network
(a) A concept is represented as a node
(b) A feature is associated with a node
(c) A link indicates there is a relation between two nodes

Question 8

Two types of relations

Is-a relation

Answer 8

hierarchical (categorical) relation

Question 9

Has-a relation

Answer 9

feature relation

Question 10

Cognitive economy

Answer 10

Features that apply to most members of a category are represented at the category level, not at the instance (exemplar) level

Question 11

Sentence verification task

Answer 11

Decide if target sentence is true or false.
Is-a Has-a
e.g., A canary is a canary (0) A canary is yellow. (0)
e.g., A canary is a bird (1) A canary has wings (1)
A canary is an animal (2) A canary has skins (2)
A canary is a mammal (F) A canary eats meat (F)

In order to perform the sentence verification task, the system has to search for information one node at a time.  Therefore, it takes longer time to find information stored in a node far away from the original node.

Question 12

spreading activation and priming

Priming

Answer 12

presentation of one stimulus (prime) affects processing of the second stimulus (target)

Question 13

types of priming control (neutral)

Answer 13

prime, target, bread, doctor