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6. Who created the spreading activation model?

  • Collins & Loftus (1975)
  • Collins & McClelland (1969)
  • Collins & Quilian (1969)
  • Loftus & Quilian (1975)

7. What model focuses on the fact that items in the same category must have the same attributes?

  • The classic model
  • The parallel distributed processing model
  • The prototype model
  • The spreading activation model

8. Who found that we have strong activation in occipital cortex during an object decision task?

  • Martin et al (1996)
  • Gerlach et al (2009)
  • Mahon, Schwarzbach & Caramazza (2011)
  • Farah & McCelland (1991)

9. What is an ad hoc category?

  • An example of something from a category
  • The act of classifying something into a category
  • A concept created to achieve a goal
  • A special type of category for decision making

10. What are the three levels of categorisation?

  • Subordinate, superordinate and neutral
  • Superordinate, subordinate and basic
  • Maximum, minimum and middle
  • Superordinate, basic and minimal

11. What model is the exemplar model an extension of?

  • The parallel distributed processing model
  • The prototype model
  • The classic model
  • The spreading activation model

12. In the distributed plus hub model, what part of the brain is associated with the hub?

  • PFC
  • Anterior temporal lobe
  • ACC
  • Temporal lobe

13. What term is used to describe a set of things that have something in common?

  • Categorisation
  • Category
  • Concept
  • Exemplar

14. In the study by Martin et al (1996), which brain area was activated for action words (tools)?

  • Anterior cingulate
  • Occipital lobe
  • Temporal lobe
  • PFC

15. What is the term used to describe when person A has an impairment for category 1 but not 2 and person B has an impairment for category 2 but not 1?

  • Single dissociation
  • Single association
  • Double dissociation
  • Double association

16. What model is the hierarchical network model part of (Collins & Quilian, 1969)?

  • The parallel distributed processing model
  • The classic model
  • The spreading activation model
  • The prototype model

17. What are the benefits of concepts?

  • All of the above
  • They are used in medicine (differentiating illnesses)
  • They are mental shortcuts (Heuristics)
  • They are important in law (Abortion and euthanasia v murder debate)

18. What are the generation 1 models of category specificity?

  • None of the above
  • Domain specificity, confounds, visual accounts, sensory functional accounts, distributed feature accounts
  • Visual accounts, colour, space, visual memory, auditory memory
  • Domain specificity, confounds, distributed plus hub model