Episodic and Semantic Memory Systems in Cognition

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Episodic memory is organized by _____ and temporal context, while semantic memory is de-contextualized and organized by meaning.

Scientists use formal methods like _____ to organize knowledge about how the world works.

Semantic knowledge is organized in hierarchical networks where the distance between concepts represents their _____.

Semantic fluency tests reflect semantic _____ between items in categories.

Priming is when exposure to a stimulus influences the response to a subsequent stimulus by spreading activation through the _____.

Comprehending text requires recognizing words and retrieving their meaning from _____.

According to the Interactive Activation theory, words are represented as combinations of _____, which are represented as combinations of line segments.

The word superiority effect shows that individual letters are recognized faster and more accurately when presented in the context of a _____.

Episodic memories are experiences with individual examples of _____, while semantic memory is organized by meaning.

A concept is a psychological representation of a category of _____, events, or people in the world.

Category learning is the process by which animals and humans learn to classify stimuli into _____.

Generalization involves the transfer of past learning to new situations and problems by predicting similar consequences based on perceived _____.

A generalization gradient graph shows how physical changes in stimuli correspond to changes in _____.

A distributed representation is one in which information is coded as a pattern of activation distributed across many different _____.

The classical view of category learning involves learning the set of _____ that define members of the category.

Generalization in associative networks indicates how different stimuli are represented in _____.

Prototype theory involves a central tendency or idealized version of a concept, and categorization occurs by evaluating similarity to the _____.

The typicality effect shows that objects more similar to the prototype are judged as better examples of the category and are classified more _____.

The inversion effect leads to difficulty in recognizing features when upside-down, while recognition from caricatures is quicker due to emphasized configurations of _____.

Discrimination learning is the process by which animals or people learn to respond differently to different _____.

In the Jenkins & Harrison (1962) experiment, pigeons trained to respond differently to tones based on reinforcement showed less _____ compared to standard training.

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