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The mental representation for each concept is likely to represent an average or ideal for the category’s members.
What is prototype theory?
One way to differentiate between concepts like “Sam has a dog” and “Sam is a dog” is to store information
What is in in propositional networks?
Rules that describe the proper way to speak, or the way language is supposed to be
What are prescriptive rules?
Language determines the types of concepts and thoughts a person can have
What is the Whorfian hypothesis?
Steps that lead to both a verbal memory and a visual memory
What is dual coding?
If asked to name as many birds as they can, participants are most likely to name
What are birds that resemble the prototype?
Within a parallel distributed processing (PDP) model, the term “spreading activation” refers to the fact that
What is activation of one concept will lead to many other nodes that, as a group, represent other concepts?
The rules governing the sequence of words in forming phrases and sentences
What is syntax?
Time-measuring techniques used to record how long it takes to complete a mental process.
What are chronometric studies?
Recalling something in a zoomed out perspective?
What is boundary extension?
Most natural level of categorization, which is neither too specific nor too general.
What is a “basic-level category”?
The process of “slicing” the stream of speech into successive syllables or words
What is speech segmentation?
When the setting in which a sentence occurs can help us understand garden-path sentences.
What is extralinguistic context?
When participants (often unknowingly) change their responses to what they think the experimenter is looking for
What are demand characteristics?
In any of the network models of knowledge, your learning occurs when the two concepts become...
What is connected more strongly?
single remembered instance of the category
What is an exemplar?
Phonemes overlap, both in their production and in their sound pattern.
What is coarticulation?
In speaking, the pattern of pauses and the rise and fall of pitch.
What is prosody?
________ imagery is associated with how things look, while ________ imagery is associated with an abstract form or arrangement.
What are visual and spatial?
Collins and Quillian proposed that conceptual knowledge is represented in the mind through this.
What is a hierarchy of concepts.
When compared to the statement “A canary is a bird,” the reaction time for “A canary is an animal” will be
What is slower?
The smallest units of language that carry meaning.
What are morphemes?
Knowing about how language is ordinarily used
What is pragmatics?
Being able to describe many tiny details in the picture, as if you were still viewing the picture.
What is eidetic memory?
Hearing the sentence "His *ame is Barry" as if the n was spoken.
What is the phonemic restoration effect?