Cognition (PSYCH-UA.

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Fall 2015

Study Sheet

Chapter 9
Terms
Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL)
Attribute model (of prototypes)
Back propagation
Basic level
Categorization
Central-tendency model (of prototypes)
Characteristic feature
Cognitive economy
Concept
Definitional approach to categorization
Defining feature
Embodied approach
Error message/signal
Excitatory signal
Familiarization/novelty preference
Family resemblance
Graceful degradation
Hidden units
Hierarchical network
High prototypicality
Inhibitory signal
Input units
Lexical decision task
Low prototypicality
Negative responses
Output units
Priming
Production systems
Semantic Network
Subordinate (specific) level
Superordinate (global) level
Typicality effect
Weight
Concepts
Adaptive Control of Thought (ACT)
Cognitive economy
Connectionist network (PDP)
Embodied approach

Exemplar theory
Feature (List) Comparison Model
Gaze duration in infant
Hub and Spoke Model
Lexical decision task
Multiple-factor approach
Prototype theory
Semantic category approach
Sensory-functional hypothesis
Semantic Knowledge/memory
Semantic Relatedness effects
Sentence verification task
Spontaneous generalization
Spreading Activation Theory (Collins and Quillian, 1969, Collins and Loftus, 1975)
Experiments
Frequency effects (Conrad, 1972)
Prototypes and frequency (Mervis, et al., 1976)
Prototypes (Rosch, 1975b; Rosch and Mervis, 1975)
Relatedness effects (Smith, Shoben, Rips, 1974)
Removing less-typical exemplars and category identification, Heit and Barsalou (1996)
Sentence verification task, Collins and Quillian (1969)
Typicality effects (Rosch, 1973, Rips, Shoben and Smith, 1973)
Word associates (and lexical decision tasks, Meyer and Schvaneveldt, 1971)