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13 Cards in this Set
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Concrete Words |
experienced with the senses |
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Abstract Words |
experienced with the mind or emotions |
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Denotation |
the meaning of a word, concrete facts |
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Connotation |
the influences that can be made about a word, creative aspect of word usage |
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Lexical Entries |
give information about the phonological forms of a word, semantic properties, grammatical function, and relationships to other words. |
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Semantic Properties |
the components of a word in relation to meaning, the representation the word has with an entity that exists in the universe. groups words together, distinguish them from each other, are based on world view, contribute to meaning, ambiguity, or anomaly. |
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Semantic Hierarchy |
General to specific. Recall, starts broad (fish-water) then gets more detailed. |
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Prototypes |
broader features, certain lexical entries better represent their category than others, retrieval is generally faster than non-prototypes. |
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(Proto)Typicality Effect |
shows that (1) A robin is a bird. is verified more quickly than (2) A turkey is a bird. even though both have the same distance from the word bird. |
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Truth Conditions |
RTs based on the truth (robin is a robin has quicker RT than robin has lungs) |
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Attribution |
the least amount of entities that an attribute can be linked to, the quicker the RT. (A robin has a read breast) |
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Relatedness Effect |
judging sentences to be untrue. The less related, the quicker the RT. A pine is a church. A pine is a flower. |
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Decomposition |
we take a sentence and break it apart to judge the validity of a sentence. Slower RT when the sentence is not valid. (Rock kicks the ball.) |
