Research Discussion
Knowledge: Categorization
Language: Intro, Perception
Producing Language
Experiments
100
True or False: Participants who took longhand notes and were able to study them performed significantly better than participants in any of the other conditions
True
100
True or False: categories are pointers to knowledge
True
100
True or False: Morphemes are the smallest segment that, if changed, affects meaning
False, the correct answer is Phonemes (basic sounds)
100
True or False: our ability to understand words depends on memory
False: it depends on word frequency
100
True or False: In the Cough Experiment, single sounds were replaced with a buzzer noise
False: single sounds were replaced with a cough
200
Which note taking strategy is better for learning?
Hand written notes
200
Often, we cannot categorize based on definitions. Instead we rely on ____Resemblance (use characteristic features rather than defining features)
Often, we cannot categorize based on definitions. Instead we rely on ____
200
What are the 6 linguistic universal characteristics of all human languages?
Semanticity, arbitrariness, flexibility & naming, displacement, productivityWhat
200
What is "the old man the boat" an example of? Meaning implied at the beginning leads you astray
Garden-path sentences
200
In the Waiting Room Experiment, did participants hear their own words(A) or each others words(B) without context?
(A) their own individual words
300
Why might using a laptop to take notes be distracting?
Access to the internet, opportunity to work on other assignments, check your mail, email/message friends
300
Which approach do we use when we compare stimuli to the average characteristics of all category members?
Prototype approach
300
Which structure of language has the smallest meaningful units of words and contains root words/prefixes or suffixes
Morphemes
300
What are the 3 types of inferences?
Anaphoric, instrumental, causal
300
What were the 2 conditions in the Mashed Potato Experiment?
Food context and neutral
400
Did telling students not to take notes verbatim prevent them from doing so?
No, they still wrote verbatim notes
400
Which approach do we use when we compare stimuli to the standard category member?
Exemplar approach
400
What are the 3 levels of analysis?
Phonology, syntax, semantics
400
The underlying linguistic knowledge that lets people produce and comprehend their language vs. people's actual use of the knowledge
Linguistic competence vs. linguistic performance
400
What must the participant find in the Syntactic Priming Experiment?
the participant must find the corresponding card
500
Although taking more notes is beneficial, if it is done _______ the benefit disappears
Mindlessly / Indiscriminately
500
What are Rosch's 3 levels of categories?
Superordinate (general), Basic (abstraction), Subordinate (more distinct)
500
What were the results of the Waiting Room Experiment?
Participants could only identify about half of their OWN WORDS and improved performance for longer segments
500
Which speech error is the following: "Fighting a Liar in the quadrangle" / "Hissing a Mystery lecture"
Spoonerisms
500
In the Syntactic Priming Experiment, the participant’s description matched the form of the confederate ___% of the time
78%
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