College 8 Flashcards
What is the lexical decision task
evidence for partial retrieval of related words
lexical priming
when one word in the network is processed, activation spread to all its associated words
What are homophones
words that sound the same but have seperate meanings
What are homographs?
words that have the same spelling but separate meanings
wat are poysemous words?
words that can convey a myriad of different but related meanings
What is cohort?
words are processed from left to right
What is trace?
several levels, word, phoneme and sound
What is the Ganong effect?
if the sound is ambiguous, the word you think you heard increses the activation of a certain phoneme
What is logographic?
Symbols map into units of meaning
What is a syllabic
symbols map onto syllables
what is the assembled phonology route?
it allows us to read words that we know from spoken language but haven’t yet mastered in print.
What is semantic priming?
hearing or reading a word partiallya ctivates other words that are related in meaing to that word
inhibition
process that results in word recognition becoming more difficult
sparse neighbourhood
very few sound-based neighbours
dense neighbourhood
neighbours crowding up on all sides
