In a sentence verification task, the presence of highly related negative items such as “A bat is a bird” and “A dolphin is a fish” _____. This finding falsifies Smith, Shoben & Rips (1974) feature based model of semantic memory.

To understand a cognitive process such as lexical access or sentence comprehension at the level of analysis that Marr (1982) refers to as the “computational theory” we must be able to answer the following question:

Swinney (1979) found that close associates of both meanings of an ambiguous word are always primed in an immediate lexical decision task. For example, right after encountering the ambiguous word “bug” research participants were quicker to recognize both “ant” (a close associate of the insect meaning of “bug”) and “spy” (a close associate of the listening device meaning) regardless of the context. This supports the _____ model of how we access the appropriate meaning of an ambiguous word. 

Farah & McClelland’s (1991) model of semantic memory impairment uses _____ representations of concepts.

Automatic processes such as word recognition _____.

In McClelland & Rumelhart’s (1981) Interactive Activation model _____.

_____ are the categories (like letters in written language) into which we place speech sounds. They vary from language to language.

If Savin & Perchonock (1965) had found that _____ the derivational theory of complexity would have been falsified.

The /b/ sound in “big” and the _____ differ in manner of articulation.

Farah & McClelland’s (1991) parallel distributed processing model of semantic memory impairment does not include nodes which _____.