Exam 5: Representation of Knowledge

Neuroscience researchers (Warrington and Shallice,1984;Saffran and Schwartz,1994)have found that individuals with damage to their _____ lobe show deficits in their knowledge about biological categories,such as animals,fruits,and vegetables.

Which statement is NOT a valid conclusion based on the research done by Collins and Quillan (1969)on the structure of semantic memory?

Which concept is NOT an example of a schema?

In a propositional network,the relations and the arguments are called nodes.

When Bower,Black,and Turner asked subjects to judge whether various statements came from an earlier story containing some script events,they found that:

Barsalou (1999)refers to all propositional representations as _____.This term is meant to denote the fact that all elements of representation are inherently nonperceptual.

Which statement is a distinction between propositions and schemas?

What does the cognitive system gain through categorization?

What has past research taught us about the organization of facts in semantic memory?

The _____ prefrontal region is involved in processing visual information.

Bransford and Franks showed subjects sentences such as "The rock rolled down the mountain and crushed the tiny hut" and "The rock crushed the tiny hut by the woods." Later,their subjects thought they had heard "The rock rolled down the mountain and crushed the hut beside the woods." What does this experiment show?

Mandler and Ritchey used pictures of scenes (such as classroom scenes)to study picture memory.They found that subjects rejected changes in:

What term in cognitive psychology is defined as "the smallest unit of knowledge that can stand as a separate assertion"?

Subjects given a verbal explanation for a type of picture called a droodle:

Which statement is NOT true about verifying facts (e.g. ,robins have skin)?

Subjects are asked to read a series of statements such as "customer pays bill," "customer orders food," "customer picks up menu," and "customer looks for table." When asked to recall these items later,most subjects would probably:

Wanner warned some subjects,but not others,that they would have to recall a set of instructions.The results of the study showed that:

What is meant by embodied cognition?

Dr.Brooks is interested in studying memory for pictures.He shows participants a picture of a woman in a flowered apron putting a roast into the oven.Then,after a delay,he shows them two new pictures and asks them to identify which one they have seen.Which picture are participants more likely to mistake for the original picture?

Exemplar theories hold that we store: