quiz 3 (week 9.2 to 11.2) Flashcards

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proactive vs retroactive interference

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proactive: old pairing interferes with new; stronger if the old pair has a stronger connection than the new
retroactive: new replaces old; stronger if the old one was learned a long time ago

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LTM classification schemes (3)

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episodic vs semantic, declarative vs procedural, implicit vs explicit

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deep vs shallow processing

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deep: meaning-based processing
shallow: form-based processing

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hierarchical network model

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our knowledge and concept are organized like a hierarchy of categories; concepts related in meaning (semantic memory)

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spreading activation

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hearing/seeing one word also activates multiple related concepts/words (not always language-related); can spread from one layer to another

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classic view of concept and categorization (3)

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list of features, binary distinction (belong or not belong to the category), no goodness-of-fit (no good or bad member)

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Jessen et al. (2000)

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fMRI study of German words; tested concrete vs abstract words; implied that you can mentally “sense” the concrete objects even if the actual object is not presented (imagery)

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Cooper and Shepard (1973)

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tested mental rotation; task was to identify whether the letter in the testing trial was a normal letter or a mirror image of the letter; had another condition with different cue durations

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Pardo-Vasquez and Hernandez-Rey (2012)

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tested mental rotation like Cooper and Shepard (1973), except they only tested without cues; found that mental rotation is highly correlated with working memory capacity (related to visual rehearsal)

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localization of mental rotation in the brain (2)

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parietal lobe, premotor cortex

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mental rotation process (4)

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(1) encode, (2) indicate the direction of rotation, (3) mentally rotate the shape, (4) match (judge if the rotated result is correct)

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Shepard and Metzler (1971)

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showed that we can rotate 3D shapes; the larger the rotation angle, the larger the RT

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principles of visual imagery (Finke 1989) (5)

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implicit encoding of features, perceptual equivalence, spatial equivalence, transformational equivalence (rotation), structural equivalence

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fusiform face area (FFA)

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the part of the brain specialized for facial recognition; perceptual equivalence in visual imagery

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Kosslyn (1983) spatial equivalence

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found that the longer the distance in the image, the longer the scanning RT

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Kosslyn et al. (1983) structural equivalence

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found that the higher the complexity of the verbal description of an object, the slower the RT

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moving from low to higher-level cognition (6)

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sensory input -> perception -> attention -> memory -> reasoning/problem-solving/decision making -> language

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the role of language in our cognition (5)

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effective communication, survival (i.e., signaling food resource and danger), socialization, passing down the knowledge, verbalizing emotions and thoughts

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19
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Chomsky vs Skinner view on language

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Chomsky: nativism, universal grammar, innate language
Skinner: behaviorism, reinforcement and conditioning, stimulus-response, behavioral studies of verbal behavior

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lexigrams

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symbol-meaning pairings

21
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major features that differentiate human language from animal communication (2)

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productivity of utterances, displacement (ability to talk about space and time freely)

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linguistic determinism vs linguistic relativism

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determinism: the form of our language determines our cognition (stronger)
relativism: different languages generate different cognitive structures; language influences, but does not determine, our cognition (weaker)

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (3)

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strong version (determinism): language determines thought and every aspect of our cognition
weaker version (relativism): language affects only perception
weakest version (relativism): the influence of language is “task-dependent”

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Pirahã language example

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they have only three words for counting (one, two, many); evidence for relativism because the larger the quantity, the larger the error rate

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Winawer et al. (2007)
studied Russian vs. English speakers' categorization of colors; Russians could use different words for "blue" despite the subtle color difference
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Renzi et al. (1966)
studied the impact of aphasia on abstract thinking with the Weigl Sorting Test; found that left-hemisphere damaged but non-aphasic scored higher than aphasic but lower than normal and right-hemisphere damaged but non-aphasic; supported relativism (weak or weakest version)
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Iverson and Goldin-Meadow (2005)
found two types of gestures in early preverbal development (supplementary and complementary); found a positive correlation between onset age of supplementary gestures and onset age of two-word stage
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supplementary vs complementary gestures
supplementary: adds information to the verbal information; two concepts complementary: redundant information; one concept
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cross-modal vs phonological binding task
cross-modal: associate a visual with an auditory input phonological: associate two auditory input
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under- vs over-extension
under-extension: failure to generalize from one exemplar to others (being too specific) over-extension: overgeneralize one word to all other members in the broader category
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if a child has a working memory deficit... (4)
difficulty following verbal instructions, difficulty in reading, delayed vocabulary acquisition, delayed syntactic acquisition
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Gathercole and Baddeley (1990)
found that higher repetition and shorter words facilitate learning
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Kim and Kaiser (2000)
tested children with and without ADHD; found that WM and attention are important for sentence imitation and word articulation
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benefits of being bilingual (3)
ability to figure out and describe patterns and rules (metalinguistic awareness), better executive control, better performance in cognitive tasks
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bilinguals vs monolinguals in attention shift task
less perseveration observed in bilinguals (better inhibitory control, lower switch cost)
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Krizman et al. (2012)
found a correlation between neural response to complex sounds and sustained selective attention; people who are proficient in multiple languages have enhanced sensory processing and selective attention
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is language essential for problem solving?
no (but would help the thinking process), unless a task requires verbal skills
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necessary for problem solving (5)
goal setting, attention, memory, experience, knowledge about the problem itself (problem-specific)
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well- vs ill-defined problems
well-defined: clear goal/narrower scope; narrower set of actions; easier to play ahead ill-defined: open-ended; unclear actions needed to achieve the goal; may generate some well-defined problems while solving the ill-defined ones
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common strategies in problem-solving (4)
generate-and-test, working backward, backtracking, analogy
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generate-and-test
a strategy in problem-solving; trial-and-error approach
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working backward
a strategy in problem-solving; knowing what the solution should look like; performing the last step first; planning of moves
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backtracking
a strategy in problem-solving; stepping back to track the root of the problem
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mental set
one's strategy/preference to approach a problem
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functional fixedness
a fixed mental set for the function of an object