PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Anomic Aphasia, Embodied Cognition, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Semantic memory: permanent memory store of general world knowledge: conceptual knowledge. How fast were the cars going when they smashed/collided : result: the second group overestimated the speed of the cars, because the words in the question involved stronger verbs. Collins and quillian model of semantic memory hierarchical (p. 214) Structure of semantic memory is a network: network: interrelated set of concepts, node: a point or location in the semantic space, represents each concept in the network. Pathways: labeled, directional associations between: links concept nodes. Spreading activation: the retrieval of information: major process acting on the network, spreads along the links to other concepts it encounters. Proposition: a relation between two concepts: each link specifies a relationship, isa robin is a bird concepts from this network and activates nodes that. Therefore, the robin is a memory of the category bird : p bird has the property feathers .
