A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
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...Examples of network theories appear in papers or books by Collins and Quillian (1969), Anderson and Bower (1973), Collins and Loftus (1975), and Anderson (1976)....
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...Meyer and Schvaneveldt (Meyer, 1973; Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1971; Schvaneveldt & Meyer, 1973; Meyer, Schvaneveldt, & Ruddy, Note 3) have also shown that the time to retrieve information from memory is faster if related information has been accessed a short time previously....
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...This is a statement of the strong theory of cognitive economy, Undoubtedly the Collins and Quillian (1969) paper gave rise to this notion , but the authors cautioned against making that interpretation of the theory....
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...In Collins and Quillian (1969, 1972b) links were assumed to have differential accessibility (i.e., strength or travel time)....
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...In her first experiment, which was like the Collins and Quillian (1969) study, Conrad selected 2-level and 3-level hierarchies from the common culture (e.g., salmon —» fish —» animal) and properties associated with the objects at different levels....
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...In this regard, it is important to distinguish the strong theory of cognitive economy, which Conrad takes issue with in her attack on Collins and Quillian (1969), and the weak theory of cognitive economy, which Collins and Quillian were testing (though they did not spell it out clearly enough)....
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...Collins and Quillian (1969) did obtain subject ratings of importance of the property for the relevant level concept, which should correlate with Conrad's frequency measure....
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...Perhaps the most prevalent misinterpretation of Quillian's theory concerns the idea of cognitive economy (Anderson & Bower, 1973; Conrad, 1972)....
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...Anderson and Bower (1973) reject a Quillian-like model of a parallel search, while acknowledging that their data are compatible with "a parallel model whose search rate is slower in proportion to the number of paths that must be searched" (p. 371)....
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