LTM semantic

Question 1

semantic memory

Answer 1

• General knowledge about the world
• Memory necessary for the use of language for the manipulation of
  ▫ symbols
  ▫ concepts
  ▫ relations

Question 2

quillian

Answer 2

• Semantic memory is structured in a network
• Cognitive economy is good for storage
• Looked at people’s reaction time in regards to sentence verification prompts

Less reaction time = Nodes are closer together in the network (ex. Canary → Bird takes less time than Canary → Animal because there are less links you have to cross)
Length of links are the same AND unidirectional (no bidirectional arrows in the original model)

Question 3

complicating the quillian structure

Answer 3

• A canary is a bird vs. A chicken is a bird
• Modifications were made to the hierarchical model → The link between chicken and bird is longer than the link between canary and bird
• Changing the links to show that some exemplars are less prototypical than others
• Changing the model to account for new empirical findings

Question 4

feature list model

Answer 4

• Feature list model proposed that semantic memory information is organized into lists
• Characteristic vs. defining
• Comparison of subsets and feature overlap score is determined

Question 5

characteristic features

Answer 5

associated

Question 6

defining features

Answer 6

essential