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Conceptual knowledge

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How we build our semantic memory; enables us to recognize objects and events to make inference about its properties

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Concept

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Mental representations used for a variety of cognitive functions

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Categorization

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The process by which things are placed into groups called categories

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Categories are useful because they ______________

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help understand individual cases not previously encountered

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Categories involved “Pointers to knowledge”. What does this allow us to do?

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It allows us to identify the special characteristics of a particular item

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Caption

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Knowing that something is in a category provides a great deal of information about it

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Definitional approach to categorization

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Coming up with a list of things that something needs to have to be a member of the category; DOES NOT WORK WELL

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Family resemblance

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Things in a category resemble one another in a number of ways, but do not have every single feature

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The prototype approach

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An abstract representation of the “Typical” member of a category

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A prototype is the ___________ member of a category

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Typical

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A prototype is an ___________ people in the group but is not an actual _________________

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average; member of the category

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High prototypicality

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A category member that closely resembles the category prototype

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A high prototypicality for the group bird would be a ________

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Robin, Blue Jay, or Sparrow

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Low prototypicality

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A category member does not closely resemble the category prototype

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A low prototypicality for the group bird would be a _________

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Penguin

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There is a strong positive relationship between prototypicality and __________________________

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Family resemblance

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Low overlap = ______ Family Resemblance

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Low

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What is the typicality effect?

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Prototypical objects are processed preferentially

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Do we process high or low prototypical objects more rapidlY?

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High

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Sentence Verification Technique

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Analyzing a sentence and saying if its true or false
Measured rate of reply

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The questioner states “The apple is a fruit” and you reply with Yes in 200 ms. What does this examplify?

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The sentence verification technique

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The Exemplar Approach

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The concept is represented by multiple examples (rather than a single prototype)

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Examples in the exemplar method are ______________________

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ACTUAL category members

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Is the exemplar approach similar to the prototype approach?

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Yeah

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What is the difference between the prototype approach and the exemplar approach? ***

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The exemplar is an actual member of the category, while the prototype is a not real average of all members

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The pros are that _______ approach explains the typicality effect, easily takes into account atypical cases, and easily deals with variable categories.

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The exemplar approach

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_____________ may work best for small categories (EX: presidents)

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Exemplars

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__________ may work best for larger categories (Ex: birds)

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Prototype

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Hierarchical structure

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Group diverges from a very vague topic (vehicle) which branches down to individual groups (car, truck, bike), which branches even more into more specific groups (Ford F-150)

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Global (superordinate) classification

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More vague; at the top of hierarchical structure

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Specific (subordinate)

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Ultra specific; at the bottom of hierarchical structure

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In the middle of the hierarchical structure is _______________

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Basic

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Going from basic to global, we lose/gain information

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Lose a lot

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Going from basic to specific, we lose/gain information

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Gain a little

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Children learning _______-level concepts sooner than other levels

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Basic

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Semantic Networks

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Concepts are arranged in networks that represent the way concepts are organized in the mind

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Collins and Quillian Semantic networks

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Model for how concepts and properties are associated in the mind

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Node

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Category/concept

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Concepts are __________

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Linked

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Cognitive economy

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Shared properties are only stored at higher-level nodes

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What is inheritance in the hierarchical model?

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The lower layers share traits with the upper level; They inherit the traits

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Spreading activation

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When you active a node, activity spreads across all connective links

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Lexical decision task

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Participants are given a string of letters and are asked if it is a word or not

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Myer and Schvaneveldt’s semantic network experiment compared _____________________with ________________________

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The reaction time of words associated with the reaction time of unassociated words

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What were the criticisms of Collins and Quillan? (3)

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  1. Cognitive economy
  2. COULD NOT EXPLAIN THE TYPICALITY EFFECT
  3. Some sentence-verification results are problematic for the model
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Collins and Loftus update Collin’s previous hierarchical model by (3)

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  1. Shorter links to connect relatively related concepts
  2. Longer links to connect less closely related concepts
  3. No more hierarchical structure; based on persons experience
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Collins and Loftus semantic networks had some defects. What were the 3?

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  1. Predictive for some results, but not others
  2. Generated multiple experiments
  3. Lacked falsifiability
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What are the four proposals of how concepts are represented in the brain?

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  1. Sensory-functional hypothesis
  2. Multiple-factor approach
  3. Semantic category approach
  4. Embodied approach
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Sensory-functional hypothesis

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Different brain areas may be specialized to process information about different categories

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Double dissociations for categories “______________” and “______________” (artifacts)

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Living things; nonliving things

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Living things are described based on ______________________, while artifacts (objects) are described based on ______________

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Sensory properties; functions

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Semantic category approach

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Specific neural circuits for specific categories (DIFFERENT WORDS ACTIVATE DIFFERENT PARTS OF BRAIN)

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Multiple factor approach

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Focuses on areas with distributed representations and crowding

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Distributed representation

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How concepts are divided within a category

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Crowding

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When different concepts within a category share many properties

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The embodied approach

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Knowledge of concepts is based on reactivation of sensory and motor processes that occur when we interact with the object

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When do mirror neurons fire?

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Fire when we do a task or we observe another doing that same task

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Semantic somatotopy

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

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Do we have one explanation of how concepts are represented in the brain?

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NO; use of all 4 approaches are used

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