Effects
The effect occurs when people judge typical items faster than items that are not typical. (Example: For the bird category people are most likely to judge robins more quickly than penguins for the bird category)
What is the typicality effect
This type of memory includes general knowledge, language knowledge, and conceptual knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
This approach suggests that different levels of categorization activate different regions of the brain.
What is the exemplar approach?
The best or most typical example of a category.
What is a prototype?
This level of categorization is most likely to produce the semantic priming effect.
What is the basic-level category?
This word refers to the degree to which an item represents its category.
What is prototypicality?
The approach in categorization which involves comparing an item to an ideal or best example of its category.
What is the prototype approach?
This type of structure begins with the most representative or prototypical members of a category and continues through less typical members.
What is graded structure?
The concept that people respond faster to an item when it is preceded by an item with similar meaning.
What is the semantic priming effect?
The ideat that no single attribute is shared by all members of a concept, but each has at least one attribute in common with some other members.
What is family resemblance?
The theory that suggests that concepts are based on multiple specific examples stored in memory rather than a single idealized representation.
What is the exemplar approach?
What is lexical or language knowledge?
What is lexical or language knowledge?
The term for a category that is more general than basic-level but less specific than subordinate-level.
What is a superordinate-level category?
What is a superordinate-level category?
This cognitive model attempts to explain human performance across multiple tasks.
What is Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational? (ACRT-R)
A “dog” is an example of this category level, which is moderately specific.
What is a basic-level category?