Exam 8: Associative Theories of Long-Term Memory

In a sentence-verification task, participants respond to these two sentences: "A canary has feathers," and "A canary is yellow." We should predict faster response times to the second sentence because:

A lexical-decision task is generally used to assess:

Marni knows many facts about cowboy hats. However, while each of these facts is associated with cowboy hats, the various facts are not associated with one another. As a result, Marni may be less able to recall a particular fact about cowboy hats in comparison to someone who knows just that fact and nothing more. This is because:

According to connectionist models, "learning" occurs through an adjustment of:

In Trial 18 of a lexical-decision task, a participant sees the word "chair." Of the following, which will produce the STRONGEST priming for this trial?

One way to test the network idea would be to build a working model based on the theoretical claims of the model, and see how well the model replicates the human data. What evidence could be derived from this testing method?

There are several proposals for how nodes are connected in networks. Which of the following is NOT a proposal mentioned in this chapter?

At this moment, Enriqueta is thinking about her garden. In network terms, this "thinking about garden" is directly reflected in:

If the associative links between all nodes were the same type, with no markers for how the nodes are related:

Which of the following is an advantage of a winner-takes-all system?

In Anderson's network account of propositional knowledge:

In an experiment, participants are shown a pair of letter strings and are asked to respond "yes" if both the letter strings are words and "no" otherwise. Which of the following pairs of letter strings are MOST likely to produce the fastest response?

In a system using distributed representations, each idea or mental content is represented by:

Once a node is activated, it will serve as a source of further activation, and this activation will:

A search through memory can be launched in several different ways. Which of the following is NOT one of these ways?

In order for a connectionist or parallel distributed processing (PDP) network to function, each of the nodes must function:

The notion of associative networks is based on the general idea that memory connections are:

Connectionist models are sometimes referred to as neural nets. This makes sense because:

Input nodes differ from other nodes in that they:

The term "connectionism" refers to: