23 Feb Theories of human language propose the existence of a mental lexicon that is semantically organized. In testing the idea of a semantic lexicon, researchers hypothesized that words that are r
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Theories of human language propose the existence of a mental lexicon that is semantically organized. In testing the idea of a semantic lexicon, researchers hypothesized that words that are related to each other (e.g., chair, seat, and table) would be close in the lexicon, while words that are unrelated to each other (e.g., chair, dinosaur, and broccoli) would be far apart. If the lexicon follows this organizational pattern, reaction times for related words should be faster than for unrelated words. Evidence suggests that this is the case, suggesting that a lexicon is organized as a semantic network.
Which pair of words should have a stronger activation strength, desk-book? or desk-car?? Be sure to explain your answer.
Describe both the lexical decision task and the clinical free association task. How is the lexical decision task similar to a clinical free association task?
Why might seeing the word parlor? make you hungry for pizza? (Hint: think of spreading activation of related nodes)
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