The ability to match words to their respective meanings in one’s mental lexicon is sufficient for understanding language.

One of the ways that we know visual imagery and visual perception are different is from research studies that show that imagery and perception do not interfere with or impact each other.

If brain imaging studies show activation in motor areas when thinking about tools, this provides stronger support for the semantic network model than for the embodied cognition model.

You see an unfamiliar fruit and decide it is a “fruit” because it shares many features with apples, bananas, and grapes you’ve seen before. This process best matches the __________ approach.

Shepard and Metzler’s “image rotation” experiment was so influential and important to the study of cognition because it demonstrated

Which categorization approach can BEST account for categories in which there is a high degree of variation amongst the members, such as games?

Andy is listening to his grandma reminisce about the first time she danced with his grandpa 60 years ago. When his grandma says, “It seemed like the song would play forever,” Andy understands that it is more likely his grandma was listening to a radio playing and NOT a music streaming service like Spotify. This understanding requires Andy use a(n) [BLANK-1] inference.

Shepard and Metzler measured the time it took for participants to decide whether two objects were the same (two different views of the same object) or different (two different objects). These researchers inferred cognitive processes by using

 Which of the following is a strength of the connectionist network approach?

In studies of omission bias, people often judge harmful outcomes caused by