PSYCH 1000 UNIT 5 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
concept - ANSWER the mental representation of an object, event, or idea
categories - ANSWER clusters of interrelated concepts
rule-based categorization - ANSWER categorizing objects or events according to a certain set
of rules or by a specific set of features
graded membership - ANSWER the observation that some concepts appear to make better
category members than others
exemplar - ANSWER a specific example that best represents a category
prototype - ANSWER a mental representation of an average category member
semantic network - ANSWER an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that
join them to form a category
True or False - superordinate categories like animal are generally used when someone is
uncertain about an object - ANSWER true
,priming - ANSWER the activation of individual concepts in long-term memory
category specific visual agnosia (CSVA) - ANSWER inability to identify certain categories
True or False - categories are group together in the brain - ANSWER true (I think, look at page
337)
Which categories were group together for our survival - ANSWER animals, fruits and
vegetables, members of our own species, possibly tools
folk biology - ANSWER studied relationships between culture and categorization
True or False - people raised in North America tend to view objects in relation to their
environment while Japanese people tend to focus on a single characteristic - ANSWER false
linguistic relativity (Whorfian hypothesis) - ANSWER the theory that the language we use
determines how we understand (and categorize) the world
True or False - brain regions involved in object recognition and processing differed in people
from western and eastern cultures - ANSWER true
, A _______ is a mental representation of an average member of a category.
a. subordinate-level category
b. prototype
c. network
d. similarity principle - ANSWER b
Rule-based categorization approaches sometimes cannot account for ________, a property of
categorization that makes some items better category members than others.
a. basic-level categorization
b. prototyping
c. graded membership
d. priming - ANSWER c
The idea that our language influences how we understand the world is referred to as ________.
a. the Whorfian hypothesis
b. the context specificity hypothesis
c. sentence verification
d. priming - ANSWER a
Janice, a medical school student, looked at her grandmother's hospital chart. Although her
grandmother appeared to have problems with her intestines, Janice thought the pattern of
the lab results resembled those of a patient with lupus whom Janice had seen in the clinic
ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED
concept - ANSWER the mental representation of an object, event, or idea
categories - ANSWER clusters of interrelated concepts
rule-based categorization - ANSWER categorizing objects or events according to a certain set
of rules or by a specific set of features
graded membership - ANSWER the observation that some concepts appear to make better
category members than others
exemplar - ANSWER a specific example that best represents a category
prototype - ANSWER a mental representation of an average category member
semantic network - ANSWER an interconnected set of nodes (or concepts) and the links that
join them to form a category
True or False - superordinate categories like animal are generally used when someone is
uncertain about an object - ANSWER true
,priming - ANSWER the activation of individual concepts in long-term memory
category specific visual agnosia (CSVA) - ANSWER inability to identify certain categories
True or False - categories are group together in the brain - ANSWER true (I think, look at page
337)
Which categories were group together for our survival - ANSWER animals, fruits and
vegetables, members of our own species, possibly tools
folk biology - ANSWER studied relationships between culture and categorization
True or False - people raised in North America tend to view objects in relation to their
environment while Japanese people tend to focus on a single characteristic - ANSWER false
linguistic relativity (Whorfian hypothesis) - ANSWER the theory that the language we use
determines how we understand (and categorize) the world
True or False - brain regions involved in object recognition and processing differed in people
from western and eastern cultures - ANSWER true
, A _______ is a mental representation of an average member of a category.
a. subordinate-level category
b. prototype
c. network
d. similarity principle - ANSWER b
Rule-based categorization approaches sometimes cannot account for ________, a property of
categorization that makes some items better category members than others.
a. basic-level categorization
b. prototyping
c. graded membership
d. priming - ANSWER c
The idea that our language influences how we understand the world is referred to as ________.
a. the Whorfian hypothesis
b. the context specificity hypothesis
c. sentence verification
d. priming - ANSWER a
Janice, a medical school student, looked at her grandmother's hospital chart. Although her
grandmother appeared to have problems with her intestines, Janice thought the pattern of
the lab results resembled those of a patient with lupus whom Janice had seen in the clinic
