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CHAPTER 9 CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE Flashcards

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what is conceptual knowledge?

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knowledge that enables us to recognize objects/events and to make inferences to their properties

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what is a concept (1)

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the mental representation of a class/individual

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what is a concept(2)

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categories of objects, events, and abstract ideas

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what is a category?

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all possible examples of a particular concept

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what is categoriaztion?

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the process by which things are placed in categories

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describe the definitional approach to categorization

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determining whether a particular object meets the definition of a category

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what philosopher coined the term family resemblance to characterize similarities between objects?

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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what is family resemblance?

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refers to the idea that things in a particular category resemble one another in a number of ways

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describe the prototype approach to categorization

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when membership of a category is determined by comparing the object to a prototype of that category

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what problem does family resemblance attempt to resolve?

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definitions often do not include all members of a category

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what is a prototype?

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typical member of a category

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who proposed a typical prototype is based on an average of members of a category that are commonly experienced

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Elanor Rosch

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what is Rosch’s idea of high typicality?

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a category member closely resembling the category prototype

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what is Rosch’s idea of low typicality?

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a category member does not closely resemble a category prototype

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variations within categories represent differences in _____

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typicality

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how did Rosch use prototypicality in an experiment?

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quantified it by presenting participants with a category title and 50 members of the category for them to rate based on representation

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what were the 3 conclusions Rosch came to from her prototypicality experiment?

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high overlap of characteristics means there’s a high family resemblance

little overlap of characteristics means there’s low family resemblance

there is a strong relationship between family resemblance and prototypicality

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who used sentence verification technique to determine how rapidly people could answer questions about an object’s category

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Edward Smith

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describe the sentence verification technique

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presenting statements and are followed by a yes or no response to the statement being true

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what did Edward Smith find using the sentence verification technique?

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people responded faster for objects that are high in prototypicality

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what is the typicality effect?

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the ability to judge highly prototypical objects more rapidly

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if someone was asked to list as many objects in a particular category, according to prototypicality, where on the list would the prototypical objects be?

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in the beginning

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prototypical objects can be affected more by the use of ____

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priming

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what is priming?

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when presentation of a stimulus facilitates the response to another stimulus that usually follows close in time

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how did Elanor Rosch use priming in an experiment?

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used a colour name as the priming stimulus and presented pairs of colours asking if they were the same as the colour name

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what were the 3 responses in Rosch’s priming experiment

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  1. same and good representations
  2. same but poor representations
  3. different colours from different categories
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what was Rosch able to conclude from her priming experiment? (2)

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priming facilitates a response to a stimulus if it contains info needed

priming allows people to create images of prototypes in response to category names

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describe the exemplar approach

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determining whether an object is similar to other objects

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what are exemplars?

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actual members of a category that a person as encountered in the past

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how does the exemplar approach explain the typicality effect

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proposes that objects that are considered exemplars are classified faster

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what is hierarchical organization?

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leveled organization in which larger and more general categories are divided into small and more specific categories

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what are Elanor Rosch’s 3 levels of categories?

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superordinate = global

basic level

subordinate = specific

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which level in Rosch’s hierarchical organization is known to be psychologically special? why?

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basic level

going up a level = loss of information

going down a level = gain of information

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____ can affect categorization

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knowledge

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how might an expert in trees identify an oak tree in comparison to a non-tree expert?

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expert would identify on a more specific level therefore identify using oak tree

non-expert would identify on a basic level using tree

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describe the semantic network approach

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proposes that concepts are arranged in networks

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Ross Quillian and Allan Collins had a network that..

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consisted of nodes connected by links

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describe concepts and links in Quillian and Collin’s semantic network

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concepts: placed so that related concepts are connected
links: indicate how concepts are related to each other in the mind

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what kind of model did Quillian and Collin’s semantic network serve as? why?

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hierarchical model

levels were arranged so more specific concepts were at the bottom and more general are at the top

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what is cognitive economy?

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storing shared properties just once at a higher-level node

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how did Quillian and Collins use reaction time to characterize their network?

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to verify how a statement demonstrated travel distance in their network

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if someone responded to a statement and their reaction time was long, what would Quillian and Collins conclude about it?

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in order for that person to retrieve the conceptual information about that statement, it required them to travel further in their semantic network

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what is spreading activation?

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activity that spreads out along any link that is connected to an activated node

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what is the result of spreading activation?

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additional concepts become primed and can be retrieved more easily

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describe the lexical decision task

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participants reading words and non-words and indicating if each “word” is one or not

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who used the lexical decision task ?

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David Meyer and Roger Schvaneveldt

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what independent variable did Meyer and Schvanveldt focus on in their Lexical Decision experiment?

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association between the pairs of words

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in Meyer and Schvanveldt’s experiment words that were closely related had the fastest reaction times, why?

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retrieval of one word triggered a spread of activation to other nearby locations/words that are related

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what was the major criticism in Quillian and Collin’s semantic network?

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their theory did not explain typicality

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what is connectionism?

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approach to creating computer models for representing cognitive processes

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who proposed the idea of connectionism?

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James McClelland and David Rumelhart

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why was connectionism favoured?

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its inspiration of how information is represented in the brain

can explain how concepts are learned and how brain damage affects conceptual knowledge

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what is parallel distributed processing?

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proposes that concepts are represented by activity distributed across a network

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what is a simple connectionist network?

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contains circles that represent neurons and lines that represent connections that transfer information between its units

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in the simple connectionist network, what are input units?

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units activated by environmental stimuli and send signals to hidden units to send to output units

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what is connection weight?

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determines how signals sent between units increase or decrease activity of the next unit

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what do connection weights correspond to in terms of neural activity?

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activity at the synapse between neurons

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what would a high connection weight result in?

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strong tendency to excite the next unit

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what would a low connection weight result in?

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causing less excitation in the next unit

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what would a negative weight result in?

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a decrease in excitation or inhibit activation on the next unit

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what 2 things does unit activation in a network depend on?

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  1. signal that originates in the input units

2. connection weights throughout the network

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what is the basic principle of connectionism?

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a stimulus presented to the input units is represented by the pattern of activity across other units

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do untrained networks have higher or lower connection weights?

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lower

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are connection weights similar or different within the network when it is untrained? what does this and their initial weight allow?

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the same

property nodes to be activated

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what does a properly working network require? why?

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adjusted connection weights

so that activation of the concept unit and relation unit activates only certain property units

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how is adjustment of connection weights achieved?

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the learning process

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what is the learning process?

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when erroneous responses in the property units cause an error signal to be sent backward in the network

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what is back propagation?

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error signals being sent back to the hidden units and the representation units provide connection weight adjustment

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what does back propagation result in?

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correct activation of property units

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what are the 2 supporting ideas that demonstrate resemblance between connectionist networks and the brain?

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  1. operation of connectionist networks are not totally disrupted by damage
  2. connectionist networks can explain the generalization of learning
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what is graceful degradation?

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property in which disruption of performance occurs only gradually as parts of the system are damaged

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what are the 4 proposals about how concepts are represented in the brain?

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sensory-functional hypothesis

multiple-factor approach

semantic category approach

embodied approach

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what is the sensory-functional hypothesis?

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states our ability to differentiate between living things and artifacts depends on memory systems that distinguish sensory attributes and functions

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what is category-specific impairment?

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when people lose the ability to identify one type of object but retained the ability to identify other objects

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what are the properties people typically consider when distinguishing between artifacts and living things?

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living things depend on perceiving sensory features

artifacts depends on perceiving their functions

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what is the multifactor approach?

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the idea of distributed representation

demonstrates how members of a specific category have similar perceptual attributes but one should consider more than one when grouping

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what is crowding?

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refers to the fact that animals tend to share many properties

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what did the idea of crowding lead to?

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patients who appear to have category-specific impairment do not have it all

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what new proposal/conclusion did crowding lead to?

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the idea that patients who have difficulty recognizing living things have a difficulty distinguishing between items with similar features

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what is the semantic category approach?

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proposes there are specific neural circuits in the brain for specific categories

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what did Alex Huth discover about the brain’s response to items from a particular category?

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responses are distributed over a number of different cortical areas

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a response to the word hammer would activate …… based on Alex Huth’s experiment

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visual areas that respond to the hammer’s shape/colour

and areas that respond to how a hammer is used/its motions

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what is the embodied approach?

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states that our knowledge of concepts is based on reactivation of sensory and motor processes that occur during object interaction

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what does the embodied approach refer to?

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how perception of an object and taking action with it interact

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what neurons are the link between perception and motor responses

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mirror neurons

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who measured participant’s brain activity using an fMRI to examine the embodied approach?

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Olaf Hauk

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what conditions did Olaf Hauk have his participants in?

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  1. moving their left/right (foot/index finger) or tongue

2. reading action words (kick/pick /lick)

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what did results of Olaf Hauk’s experiment show?

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same areas of the cortex activated by actual movements and reading the action words

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what is semantic somatotopy?

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correspondence between words related to specific parts of the body and the location of the brain

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based on sematic somatotopy, people who have trouble producing actions associated with objects would….

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have trouble recognizing the objects associated with the action

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what are the 2 kinds of features in the feature comparison model?

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defining and characteristic

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what are defining features?

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those essential to a concept

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what are characteristic features?

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those common to many members of a category but are not esssential

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describe the 2 stages of the feature comparison model

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  1. comparing the degree of similarity of both kinds of features (high/low)
  2. only comparing defining features
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what does the feature comparison model explain and what can it not explain?

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can explain the typicality effect

cannot explain priming effects

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