Categories
This approach to categorization determines membership by comparing to a “typical” member of a category
What is the Prototype Approach to Categorization?
This group of researchers thought that studying imagery was unproductive because it involved “invisible” phenomena
Who are behaviorists?
This component of language refers to word meanings
What is semantics (or morphemes)?
This refers to shared knowledge and beliefs among conversational parties
What is Common Ground?
This level is special in hierarchical categorization due to a loss of information at higher levels
What is the basic level?
In studies looking at individual differences, people who don’t use imagery to solve problems are known as this
What are Verbalizers?
This theory includes a Language Acquisition Device and Universal Grammar
What is the Nativist Theory?
This term refers to how well inferences are used in narratives to aid in understanding
What is Coherence?
Chair and Couch are high in THIS which can help determine a prototype
What is family resemblance?
In this argument, researchers argued whether imagery was based on language or spatial representations
What is the Imagery Debate?
This component of language refers to grammatical rules that specify how we can combine words
What is syntax?
This phenomena occurs when someone matches their sentence structure based on what they just heard
What is Syntactic priming?
This approach to categorization determines membership by determining if the object is similar to actual object one has encountered in their life
What is the Exemplar approach?
This memory technique involves imaging items to remember at different location in a spatial layout
What is the Method of loci?
This property of language refers to how smaller units can be combined into larger units
What is the Hierarchical Nature of language?
This model suggests we simulate perceptual and motor characteristics when reading a story
What is a Situation model?
This effect occurs response time is higher for items that are higher in prototypicality
What is the typicality effect?
This hypothesis would suggest that words like tree and bird would be easier to remember than words like peace and equality
What is the Conceptual Peg Hypothesis?
This term refers to the phenomenon that we have an infinite number of sentences to express an infinite number of ideas
What is Generativity?
This term in conversations states that a speaker should use sentences with known and new information
What is the Given-New Contract?