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Mr. Stickler's Liberty Christian Hnrs. Cog. Psych. Unit 7 Test Flashcards 2021

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What does the term "semantic memory" mean/ refer to?   show
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show This is "a set of objects that belong together".  
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Give one (1) example of a "category".   show
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show This term refers to "our mental representations of a category".  
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show One (1) example of this is "15th - century Flemish painting".  
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Why is it sometimes difficult to transfer concepts from the classroom setting where we learned them to the context of a real-life situation?   show
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What does the term "prototype" mean/ refer to?   show
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show This approach states that we decide whether a particular item belongs to a category by comparing the item with a prototype. If it is similar to the prototype, we include it in that category.  
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show This term refers to the degree to which an item is representative of its category.  
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How does the "graded structure" approach work?   show
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When does the "typicality effect" occur?   show
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show This is when people respond faster to an item if it was preceded by an item with similar meaning.  
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What are "superordinate-level categories"?   show
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show One (1) example of this type of category is "furniture".  
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What are "subordinate-level categories"?   show
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show One (1) example of this type of category is "desk chair".  
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show This approach states that we first learn information about some specific examples of a concept, then we classify each new stimulus by deciding how closely it resembles all of those specific examples.  
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show These are netlike organization of concepts in memory with numerous interconnections.  
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What are "nodes"?   show
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What does the term "declarative knowledge" mean/ refer to?   show
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What is a "proposition" where semantic memory is concerned?   show
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show One (1) example of this is: Susan gave a cat to Maria. This is an example because people can judge whether or not it is true.  
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show This approach proposes that cognitive processes can be represented by a model in which activation flows through networks that link together a large number of simple, neuron-like units.  
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How do people make "spontaneous generalizations"?   show
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What is "graceful degradation" where the PDP approach to semantic memory is concerned?   show
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show This term refers to "generalized, well-integrated knowledge about a situation, an event, or a person".  
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How does "schema therapy" work?   show
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show This term refers to "a simple, well-structured sequence of events in a specified order; this script is associated with a highly familiar activity".  
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show This term refers to "a list of events that a person believes would be most important throughout his or her lifetime".  
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What does the term "boundary extension" mean/ refer to?   show
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show This term refers to people's (usually poor) word-for-word recall.  
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Explain how the "constructive model of memory" works?   show
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Explain how the "pragmatic view of memory" works?   show
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What occurs during "memory integration"?   show
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show General knowledge; knowledge about language.  
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What are two (2) ways that researchers have used the prototype approach to examine social relationships?   show
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