Exam 5: Semantic Memory

Lexical memory is a working memory system.

In a sentence verification task, participants decide as quickly as possible if they can retrieve the sentence later.

Bransford and Johnson (1972) presented participants with confusing passages to read.They found that:

Retrieving the word "attorney" when we meant to retrieve the word "barrister" is an example of a phonological flip.

Morphology refers to:

What is spreading activation?

Cross-language priming studies show that:

Syntax refers to the:

In a Basque-English multilingual, it was shown that a Basque word like "bazkaria" (meaning lunch) can prime English words like "dinner." This supports the:

Explain the cross-language semantic priming effect.

Restaurant is to "McDonald's" as:

Bransford and Johnson (1972) presented participants with confusing passages to read.They found that having an organizing title aided recall.

An associative model means that we represent information in semantic memory in terms of connections among units of information.

Superordinate information in categorization is more based on neural processes in the:

Defining features are:

A major difference between human language and animal communication systems is that animals tend to only use communication when absolutely necessary for immediate survival, whereas humans talk for the sake of talking.

A prototype forms this in our representation of categories.

Feature comparison theory states that:

Bartlett (1932) asked his participants to play a "telephone game." He showed that:

Psycholinguistics is: