Week 6 - Concepts

Question 1

Family resemblance

Answer 1

members of a category resemble each other I some way, due to shared characteristics & feature

Question 2

Prototype

Answer 2

best example or cognitive representation of a group

Question 3

graded membership

Answer 3

the fact that similarity is a graded notion

Question 4

sentence verification task

Answer 4

given a sentence to verify true or false

-semantic memory

Question 5

production task

Answer 5

people are given the topic, and from their personal prototype they organise what a representation of this prototype means most to them

Question 6

ratings task

Answer 6

whereby people how much something is according to the prototype (how birdy are different types of birds

Question 7

basic level categories

Answer 7

a natural level of organisation, a generalisation of the object

Question 8

Exemplars

Answer 8

While a prototype is an abstract average of the members of a category, an exemplar is an actual member of a category, pulled from memory.

prototype - economical
exemplar - less economical

Question 9

propositional network

Answer 9

Propositional networks are like semantic networks in that they contain nodes ( with words) and links between nodes, represented by symbols, not mental images

Question 10

local representation

Answer 10

one node, one idea, one present for one stimuli

Question 11

distributed representation

Answer 11

multiple layers of nodes make up one idea, as a clutter.

when activated,, then surrounding nodes will simultaneously get activated

Question 12

The parallel distributed processing (PDP) model

Answer 12

neural networks interact to store memory

that memory is created by strengthening the connections between neural units.