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Which of the following is not an assumption of the spreading activation model? Spreading activation
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increases in strength over time
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Nodes in semantic network models represent
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concepts
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The major difference between the feature comparison model and the hierarchical network model is that
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in the hierarchical network model, the category information is stored directly in memory by means of associations
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Students who learned to build semantic networks were taught two different hierarchical relations labeled
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part and type
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Meyer and Schvaneveldt discovered that people can more quickly classify the letters BUTTER as a word when it is preceded by the
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word BREAD |
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The person who increased his memory span to 70 digits following a year of practice
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used his knowledge of running times to chunk digits
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According to the fan effect, the more links there are to a concept |
the slower the spread of activation |
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The study of scripts and autobiographical memories indicates that the _______of events determines speed of access and the _________ of events facilitates the organization of detailed recall.
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centrality, temporal organization
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Imagine that you performed an experiment and found that people could verify that a whale is an animal more quickly than they could verify that is a mammal. You have demonstrated
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the reversal of the category size effect
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Semantic __________ occurs, when making a decision about one concept makes it easier to make a decision about another concept.
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priming
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Priming occurs in the
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both a and b |
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With regard to the hierarchical model, which of the following does not belong?
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A feature associated with fish is that they have skin.
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Which characteristic describes a schema?
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generic
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The feature comparison model correctly predicts that classification time depends more on ___________ than on __________ .
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similarity, category size
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Nodes are theoretical constructs representing relations in a semantic network.
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False
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