PSYCH-UA 29 Lecture 25: Ch 9 Semantic Knowledge – Psych UA 29 Hilford Lecture Notes
7 Nov 2015
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Ch 9 semantic knowledge psych ua 29 hilford lecture notes: episodic memory, storage, retrieval, & use of events an individual experiences, semantic memory, storage, retrieval & use of general knowledge, organized by content, logical extensions of stored info is possible, not necessarily accompanied by source or episodic memories, how do we categorize information, definitional approach (by definition, feature comparison model rips, shoben, & smith 1973. Work well with small cases and with uncommon instances of a category: levels of categorization, superordinate more general, basic level (generally prototype, subordinate more specific, spreading activation model, networked, hierarchical, concepts stored as nodes , nodes linked in network, pathways describe associations, pathways indicate category inclusion or identify properties, when a node is primed, activation occurs & spreads to other nodes through connections; nodes maintain priming for some time; if 2 nodes referenced, 2 waves of activation, sentence verification task.
