Chapter 7

Question 1

The idea that people treat members of a category as if they had some shared common underlying quality.

Answer 1

psychological essentialism

Question 2

Which is NOT a purported advantage of using connectionist modeling to study cognition?

Answer 2

Massive parallel functions allow us to extrapolate beyond what computers can model.

Question 3

This a brain disorder that results in a deficit in word finding.

Answer 3

anomia

Question 4

Our permanent memory store of general world knowledge is called

Answer 4

semantic memory

Question 5

This is the mental activity of accessing and retrieving information from the Collins and Quillian network model.

Answer 5

spreading activation

Question 6

Semantic features are

Answer 6

simple, one-element characteristics or properties of a concept.

Question 7

A positive influence on processing is called ________; a negative influence on processing is called _________.

Answer 7

facilitation; inhibition

Question 8

Which is NOT one of types of theories of categorization discussed in the text.

Answer 8

feature comparison