Concepts and categorisation

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What term is used to describe a set of things that have something in common?
Category
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What term is used to describe a mental representation of a category that varies person to person?
Concept
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What is an ad hoc category?
A concept created to achieve a goal
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What are the three levels of categorisation?
Superordinate, subordinate and basic
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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?
Double dissociation
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What model is the hierarchical network model part of (Collins & Quilian, 1969)?
The classic model
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What model focuses on the fact that items in the same category must have the same attributes?
The classic model
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What term is used to describe a representation of the average member of a category?
Prototype
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What model is the exemplar model an extension of?
The prototype model
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Who created the spreading activation model?
Collins & Loftus (1975)
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What are the generation 1 models of category specificity?
Domain specificity, confounds, visual accounts, sensory functional accounts, distributed feature accounts
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In the study by Martin et al (1996), which brain area was activated for action words (tools)?
Anterior cingulate
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In the study by Martin et al (1996), which brain area was activated for visual processing (animals)?
Occipital lobe
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In the distributed plus hub model, what part of the brain is associated with the hub?
Anterior temporal lobe
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Who found that blind people show a response in parietal cortex to tools?
Mahon, Schwarzbach & Caramazza (2011)
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Who found that we have strong activation in occipital cortex during an object decision task?
Gerlach et al (2009)
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Who found that knocking out the anterior lobe impairs general and specific semantic knowledge and knocking out the inferior parietal lobe impairs specific knowledge?
Pobric, Jefferies, Lambon & Ralph (2010)
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