Free GRE Practice w/feedback

1. Free GRE Practice w/feedback • Friday, April 18 • 10 am – 2 pm (take the test + free lunch) • SCC J146 • Friday, April 25 • 10 am – 11:30 am (get score + feedback) • SCC J146 • Run by Princeton Review • Give Dr. Carrier your name

2. Semantic organization (cont.) • Collins & Loftus (1975) – spreading activation model • Revision of C & Q model • Allowed for different strengths between concepts in the network • can reflect personal experience • See p. 268 for picture

3. RED SHORTER LINE MEANS STRONGER CONNECTION ROSES STRENGTH DIRECTLY AFFECTS YOUR SPEED OF REACTION BLOODSHOT EYES

4. Spreading Activation • Activation = some kind of mental energy that spreads throughout your semantic network • As activation spreads, it activates memories, allowing them to be used in a task • Activation lasts for a short period of time (it has a duration); keeps the memories (i.e., concepts) available for use in a task (PRIMING) (few seconds to several mos.)

5. Language • Speech recognition (understanding spoken speech) • Speech production (speaking) • Reading (understanding written language) • Writing

6. Speech recognition • Sensation (transform the physical energy, sound waves, into electrical energy, nerve impulses) • Perception (identify the letters, words) • Comprehension • Putting words together into sentences • Determine meanings of the sentences (message) • Combine with information in LTM

7. Syntax and semantics • Syntax = rules of language • Semantics = meanings of words • Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. • Correct syntax; problematic semantics • Hit ball John did • Incorrect syntax; semantics clear

8. phonemes • Basic sounds of a language • Each language has its own set of phonemes • In English • [b] (b in ball) • [p] (p in park) • Early step in speech recognition is to identify phonemes, combine into words

9. phonemes • Ideally, each phoneme has a unique sound, so it’s easy to identify them as we hear them