BUS 237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spreading Activation, University Of Manchester, Episodic Memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Peter Tingling

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Ambiguity: there are two (or more) ways to interpret a word (bank) Nodes in memory: the nodes in our memory trigger which word to interpret. Instantiation: encoding a particular structural node as connected to a particular semantic node. Semantic memory (cid:498)intrudes(cid:499) to influence episodic memory. The best cue for recall is (cid:498)shark(cid:499) not (cid:498)fish(cid:499) Verification: indicating the truth of a test item: fruit- peach ; animal- carnation. Production: retrieving an instance from memory when given a cue: fruit- a(pple, fruit- d(urian, a rose is a ____ Quillian (1965) designed a computer model of semantic knowledge. Collins& quillian (1969, 1970) developed a technique to test semantic memory. Semantic memory consists of a network of basic elements (nodes) connected by pointers which express relations between elements. Stored with each element are a list of properties that define the features of each concept.