Exam 5: Semantic Memory

In an experiment in which all the participants were Economics and History majors, it was found that the name "Keynes" (a famous economist) led to faster judgments about economic terms than did the name "Churchill." This is an example of:

Lexical memory is our mental dictionary.

Family resemblance means that:

Levels of categorization have psychological reality based on which finding?

Semantic memory is:

Which of these statements about music and semantic memory is true?

A ______ is a mental construct that contains information associated with a specific idea.

According to prototype theory,

In a neuroimaging study on semantic-verification tasks, Raposo et al.found that:

"Book - novel - romance" is an example of:

An associative model means that:

The lexeme is the level of representation that stores the meaning of an item.

Explain the Exemplar theory.

Sofia, a seven-year old girl, describes what she does before going to sleep.She puts on her pajamas, brushes her teeth, says goodnight to mom and dad, then gets into bed.Sofia is recalling what kind of knowledge?

Research shows that the best way for adults to learn a new language is the ______ method.

Explain the Situated Simulation theory.

In a sentence verification task, participants decide as quickly as possible:

Research shows that the best way for adults to learn a new language is the immersion method.

Spreading activation refers to the concept of transferring activation from:

Describe the associative model of memory.