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PSYC 3500_ Exam 2 2024_2025 fully solved & updated
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PSYC 3500: Exam 2 2024/2025 fully solved& updated
what is semantic memory? - ANSWER--world knowledge, general
-object knowledge
-language knowledge
what are some hints about how semantic memory is organized? - ANSWER--
categorical priming (cat to dog; stool to table)
-thematic priming (dog to bone; professor to classroom)
-perceptual priming (frrisbee to pizza)
-motoric priming (key to screwdriver)
via _________ memory, you can know something you didn't learn - ANSWER-
semantic
semantic memory used to be thought of as..... - ANSWER-independent of specific
experiences and thus "context free"... but its not entirely
what are some things that were not thought to be part of semantic memory, but
are now? - ANSWER--perceptual information (sound, look, feel, smell)
-procedural knowledge
-episodic memory (things that occurred in our lives)
what is the dominant theory about the organization of semantic memory? -
ANSWER--sensorimotor-based
(embodied; perceptual symbols)
-ex) an orange is different from a baseball b/c taste and smell is different path
than everything else they share
, if brain regions that support physical action also represent the meanings of
actions, then people with damage to brain regions that support action should
have... - ANSWER-difficulty understanding words referring to actions
people with parkinson's disease have... - ANSWER--degeneration of cells
involved in planning actions
-more difficulty understanding words involving actions (draw, paint) than for
words that do not involve actions (cloud, giraffe)
categorical relationships are supported by the ________ lobe - ANSWER-anterior
temporal
damage to the anterior temporal lobe causes ___________ - ANSWER-semantic
dementia
what happens to the brain during semantic dementia? - ANSWER--gradual
atrophy of anterior temporal lobe (L > R)
-knowledge about object properties is lost
-specific knowledge is lost before general (Hodges 1995: loss of detail over time,
and Patterson 2008: drawings)
"thematic" or "event-based" relationships are supported by the ______ -
ANSWER-angular gyrus
damage to the angular gyrus causes problems with... - ANSWER--ambulance to
hospital
-dog to bone
-professor to classroom
mapping from word to meaning is supported by the _________ - ANSWER-
posterior middle temporal gyrus
damage to posterior middle temporal gyrus causes problems with... - ANSWER-
mapping sounds onto meaning
both linguistic semantics and semantic memory semantics refer to... -
ANSWER-"meaning"
cognitive psychologists tend to focus on... - ANSWER--information that is
contained in the concept/meaning
-how concepts/meanings relate to each other
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