LCP Krause quiz 9
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LCP Krause quiz 9
Question 1
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According to exemplar theory, judging the typicality of an item in its category:
Correct!
Involves comparing it to many other items
None of the other answers
Involves comparing it to only one other item
Is not possible
Question 2
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In what situation does research suggest we are most likely to depend on a
propositional code
?
When looking at a photograph
Correct!
When imagining an abstract geometric figure
When imagining a rich natural visual scene
When reasoning about categories
Question 3
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A group of participants are asked about their preferences for buying a home in either a city in Louisiana or a city in Florida. They are shown on a map that
a major hurricane made landfall at a spot roughly 300 miles from both properties. They are told that this spot is in Florida. Research suggests that
on average:
Correct!
They will choose the property in Louisiana
Their choice will depend on which property they were first shown
They will choose the property in Florida
They will show no systematic preference
Question 4
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A participant brings to mind a cartoon map they studied, where a house and a tree were drawn 1 inch apart, but the tree and a meadow were drawn 3 inches apart. Research suggests moving a mental "dot" from the house to the tree...
Correct!
...will take less time than moving one from the tree to the meadow
...will take more time than moving one from the tree to the meadow
...will take the same time as moving one from the tree to the meadow
...will not be possible
Question 5
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One appeal of connectionist models of semantic memory (like the Jets and Sharks model) is that:
They fail catastrophically when individual connections are severed
All the other answers are true
They use symbolic representation
Correct!
They can perform acceptably with partly-incorrect retrieval cues
Question 6
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A student has encoded a set of mental categories such that an elm is a type of tree, and a tree is itself a type of plant. In this example,
elm
is at the ____________ level.
superordinate
Correct!
subordinate
basic
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Question 7
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Research suggests that specific examples of birds:
Are all equally representative of the bird category
All the other answers are true
Correct!
Feel subjectively different; that is, some are “birdier” than others
Are irrelevant to the general category "bird"
Quiz Score:
7
out of 7