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Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience

E. Bruce Goldstein

Chapter 11

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Chapter Questions

02:26

Problem 1

What does the "fixing the birdhouse" experiment indicate about inference?

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Prabhakar Kumar
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01:07

Problem 2

What is coherence? Describe the different types of inference that help achieve coherence.

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Ajay Singhal
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02:30

Problem 3

What is the assumption behind a situation model? Describe what the following evidence tells us about this approach to understanding stories: (a) reaction times for pictures that match or don't match the orientations or shapes of objects in a story; (b) brain activation for action words compared to actual action; (c) predictions based on the situation.

Bryan Lynn
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01:09

Problem 4

What is the given-new contract?

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01:21

Problem 5

What is common ground? How is it established in a conversation? Describe the "New York City" experiment.

Ashley King
Ashley King
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04:46

Problem 6

What is syntactic coordination? What is syntactic priming? Describe how the Branigan experiment used syntactic priming to demonstrate syntactic coordination.

Md Mohibullah
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02:01

Problem 7

What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Describe the experiment on color perception that supports this hypothesis. Also describe the evidence that indicates that the hypothesis may hold for only one side of the visual field.

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Alyssa Mae L.
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