PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, Topographic Map, Steven Pinker
9 Dec 2013
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Spreading activation in a hierarchical model of semantic memory (collins and quillian) also a. Sentence verification time increases with number of nodes through which activation must spread. A canary is a canary: base line- activation does not spread to another node in the hierarchy to the question. A canary is a bird: activation spreads one node higher in the hierarchy to answer the question. A canary is an animal: activation spreads two nodes higher in the hierarchy to answer the questions. A pig is an animal = 1476 milliseconds. But mammal should be faster because it is lower in the hierarchy than animal. Animal is more strongly associated with pig than mammal is associated with pig so pig is an animal is verified faster. A canary or a robin is more typical of a birds than an ostrich or a peacock soo
