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roselinechinyere27m · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that you and a friend have been discussing cognitive psychology. You are more likely to respond quickly to the concept semantic memory than if you had been discussing basketball. This would be an example of

a. the false alarm effect.
b. the network effect
c. the prototype effect.
d. the semantic priming effect.

Question 2

If you have just heard the word vegetable, you can quickly make judgments about the word carrot; in contrast, your judgments about the word mushroom take much longer. According to the prototype approach, this observation shows that

a. family resemblance is stronger for prototypes than for nonprototypes.
b. prototypes are items that have the smallest number of connection weights.
c. after priming, people respond faster to prototypes than to nonprototypes.
d. basic-level categories are judged more quickly than superordinate-level categories.