PSY 452 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Semantic Network, Addressability
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An addressing system is an organizational system where each entity has its own spot like a post office or library. Content addressable would be a system where memory is categorized. We know that we have a content addressable system because of the errors we make. Semantic networks show that info in represented by symbols in our minds. All nodes have some level of activation. Activation: mental activity of thinking of a concept. Evidence for semantic networks: robin vs. chicken relation; priming. Semantic priming: related vs. unrelated words from meyer and schvanevelt. Evidence for a semantic network: typicality effects, priming. Distributed representation in pdp is spread out and meaning is in the pattern.
