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Conceptual Knowledge - Cognitive Psychology

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
Date
1.

Name the 3 levels of categories shown in the Hierarchical Organisation image

a)

Main, Secondary, Last

b)

Top, Middle, Bottom

c)

High, Medium, Low

d)

Global, Basic, Specific

2.

What is the definition of a Prototype?

a)

How much an object is previously encountered

b)

A typical member of a category

c)

A non-typical member of a category

d)

How much an object resembles members from a previously encountered category

3.

What is an exemplar category?

a)

How much an object resembles members of previously encountered categories

b)

in which larger, more general categories are divided into smaller, more specific categories

c)

there are different levels of categories

d)

our ability to categorise learned from experience

4.

Which approach becomes troublesome when defining objects?

a)

hierarchical approach

b)

definitional approach

c)

prototype approach

d)

exemplar approach

5.

What is the basic idea behind Collins and Quillian’s semantic network approach?

a)

was an experiment that measured the times to electric stimulus involving traversing different distance in the networks

b)

was an experiment that measured the networks

c)

was an experiment that measured the times to statements involving traversing different distance in the networks

d)

was an experiment that measured the times to statements involving static differences in the networks

6.

What is the goal of Collins and Quillian’s (1969) experiment? A. to demonstrate....

a)

it should take longer to answer “yes” to the statement “A canary is an animal” than to “A canary is a dog.”

b)

it should take longer to answer “yes” to the statement “A canary is an animal” than to “A canary is a bird.”

c)

it should take longer to answer “yes” to the statement “A canary is an mammal” than to “A canary is a bird.”

d)

it should take longer to answer “yes” to the statement “A canary is an animal” than to “A canary is a yellow.”

7.

What does a 'connectionist network depict?' (HINT: what are the circles in the image?)

a)

Bases in the Brain

b)

Brain Neurons

c)

Cells of the Brain

d)

Balls

8.

Connectionism is an approach to creating computer models for representing cognitive processes. These models are also called (PDP)

a)

parallel distributed processing

b)

principle distributed progress

c)

parallel distributed progress

d)

principle distributed processing

9.

Connection ______ is how signals are sent from one unit either increase or decrease activity of the next unit

a)

Output

b)

Unit

c)

Layer

d)

Weight

10.

Training a Network: The learning process occurs when the erroneous responses in the property units cause an _____ ______ to be sent back through the network, by a process called back propagation

a)

output signal

b)

error signal

c)

network signal

d)

input signal

11.

The operation of connectionist networks is not totally disrupted by damage, disruption of performance occurs only gradually as parts of the system are damaged, this is called

a)

gross degradation

b)

graceful degradation

c)

gradient degradation

d)

gradual degradation

12.

Connectionist networks can explain ____. Because similar concepts have similar patterns, training a system to recognize the properties of one concept also provides information about other, related concepts.

a)

lessons of learning.

b)

chances of learning.

c)

greater benefit of learning.

d)

generalisation of learning.

13.

Our ability to differentiate living things and artifacts depends on a memory system that distinguishes sensory attributes and a system that distinguishes functions led to the

a)

sensory-functional hypothesis

b)

system-functional hypothesis

c)

systematic-functional hypothesis

d)

stimuli-functional hypothesis

14.

A memory loss impairment in which they had lost the ability to identify one type of object but retained the ability to identify other types of objects.

a)

specific memory impairment

b)

catastrophic-specific memory impairment

c)

cranial-specific memory impairment

d)

category-specific memory impairment

15.

    What study conducted by Hoffman and Ralph was done in 2013, demonstrated many participants sorted objects or the words for the objects by the visual form and not the function of the object?

a)

multiple-fixed approach

b)

multiple-focal approach

c)

multiple-factor approach

d)

multiple-choice approach

16.

The ___ proposes that there are specific neural circuits in the brain for some specific categories

a)

Situational Category Approach

b)

Semantic Category Approach

c)

Systematic Category Approach

d)

Simple Category Approach

17.

Huth and coworkers (2016) experiment in which participants listened to stories in a scanner found ___ that activated different places on the cortex

a)

images

b)

words

c)

objects

d)

scripts

18.

When we see a hammer or read the word hammer later, these sensory and motor areas are reactivated, and it is this information that represents the hammer (Barsalou, 2008). This describes the ___ approach

a)

embodied

b)

empty

c)

emerge

d)

edited

19.

The Hub and Spoke Model of semantic knowledge are areas of the brain that are associated with specific functions are connected to the

a)

anterior temporal lobe

b)

dominant parietal lobe

c)

occipital lobe

d)

frontal lobe

20.

a category member closely resembles the category prototype (it is like a “_______” member of the category) also a category member does not closely resemble a _______ member of the category (HINT: same word)

(a)  

21.

An advantage of the exemplar approach over the prototype approach is that the exemplar approach provides a better explanation of the ___________ effect

a)

typicality

b)

resemblance

c)

priming

d)

reaction time

22.

Which of the following would be in a basic level category

a)

transportation

b)

pick-up truck

c)

truck

d)

vehicle

23.

Spreading activation

a)

creates new links between associated concepts

b)

inhibits unrelated concepts

c)

primes associated concepts

d)

weakens the link between unrelated concepts

24.

Which of the choices best represents cognitive economy in the following sentence? The property _______is stored at the _______node.

a)

can fly; bird

b)

can fly; canary

c)

has feathers; ostrich

d)

bird; penguin

25.

In the semantic network model, a specific category or concept is represented at a:

a)

link

b)

node

c)

input

d)

output