Cognitive Psychology Test #3

-information acquired through memory and learning

-mental representation of acquired knowledge

-more indepth than schemas
-can have a family resemblance
-can have a prototype

-points to knowledge
-inference-making

-memory consist of a huge network of associated representations
ex: "HOUSE" will contact house representations in memory

-retreival from long term memory based on spreading activation through a newtwork of associated representations (nodes or units)
-activation may be non-conscious

-the way we think/organize our memories
-conceptually related and/or similar material is stored physically close together in long term memory

-hierarchy of concepts: animal-->bird-->canary "Is a canary an animal" takes less time to answer than "Is a canary a bird"

-a part of the spatial hypothesis
animal-->bird-->canary "Is a canary an animal" takes less time to answer than "Is a canary a bird"

-1976
-3 levels of categories:
-superordinate
-basic
-subordinate

-most general category level named by rosch et al

-more specific level category than superodinate level
-named by rosch et al
-is psychologically privileged/psychologically more important than the other levels
-we used this when naming pictures
(when looking at a picture of a canary, we'd say "bird" not "animal" (superordinate) or canary (subordinate)

-most specici level of categorization
-named by rosch et al
-used by experts

-things in a particular category resemble one another in a number of ways

-average representation of the members of a category

-close resemblance to category prototype