Semantics

Question 1

Semantics

Answer 1

knowledge of meanings of words, phrases, and sentences

Question 2

Semantic Organization - our mental lexical is organized by:

Answer 2

semantics

Question 3

Mental lexical

Answer 3

“mental dictionary” - our knowledge of words/morphemes

Question 4

Verbal fluency test

Answer 4

We name things in groups

Proves that our mental lexicon is organized semantically

Question 5

Spreading activation model

Answer 5

Nodes - concepts
Links - length represents relatedness - the longer the length, the less related they are - closer = more related
Assumptions: When a concept is processed, activation spreads to connected nodes, activation gets weaker over distance
Evidence: Semantic priming - seeing/hearing a related item helps access: Prime –> Target

Question 6

Semantic priming

Answer 6

Seeing/hearing a related item helps access
Prime –> Target (people took longer to identify target with an unrelated primer)
Effects are very robust