Chapter 8 Practice Quizzes

Concepts
. In Bruner et al.'s experiments, if an item has attributes of a concept, then it is an example of ______.

. Which of the following is required for something to be considered part of a concept?

. You are participating in an experiment, and the experimenter has given you a card with a picture of a purple diamond. She says that this is a positive instance of the concept and challenges you to figure out what the concept is by having you choose any card you like while she responds as to whether it is a positive or negative instance of the concept. What type of task is this?

. Which strategy of concept formation keeps in mind all hypotheses and tries to eliminate as many as possible after each instance selection?

. Which of the following describes learning that occurs unintentionally?

. Which of the following, according to Reber, plays an important role in many aspects of cognition, such as language?

. Shanks and colleagues presented evidence that implicit learning can be accompanied by ______.

. When comparing the overlapping features of a robin and a crow to those of a penguin and a robin, ______ would be lower for the penguin and the robin.

. The skills that enable us to construct temporary categories for defining objects are rooted in ______.

. Of the different levels of categories proposed by Rosch, which one is the most important?

. Correlated attributes are most closely related to ______.

. Which of the following concept would represent the basic level according to Rosch?

. We might sometimes consider a bat to be a member of the bird category even though it is not a bird. Which theory would best explain why we might do so?

. A shopping list could best be described as ______.

. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of concepts described by Bruner et al. (1956)?

. Which strategy of concept formation used in selection tasks requires an individual to focus on one attribute at a time and select examples that vary only on that attribute?

. What was the criticism levelled at classical concept research, such as that conducted by Bruner et al.?

. Which of the following concepts would the majority of people consider to be the most prototypical of the category "fruit"?

. In regards to perceptual symbols, Barsalou would most likely agree that they represent ______.

. It was noted by Barsalou (1983) that goal-derived categories have ______.

. According to some embodied cognition theorists, the role of cognition is to facilitate successful interaction with the environment.

. A requisite characteristic of goal-derived categories is that all members share at least one attribute.

. Motor expertise can modulate how we perceive action, especially action that is involved in the expert action.

. For most people, the colours used in a stoplight would be highly prototypical of the concepts of red, green, and yellow.

. Sometimes a brain injury can lead to a selective inability to be able to identify your own pet as a living object.

. Sensory-functional theories, like perceptual symbol systems, were inspired by perceptual-specific deficits.

. The value of the attributes is important in determining if something is an instance of a concept.

. According to Wittgenstein, members of a category may not share any common features.

. The sensory-functional theory accounts for all cases of category-specific deficits.

. To Barsalou, knowledge of concepts is rooted in perceptual experience.

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