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The Norton Psychology Labs is a set of 60 interactive computer experiments that allow students to experience psychological phenomena and classical experiments in an exciting and interactive online environment.

If you would like to gain access to the ZAPS labs and do not yet have a username and password, click on the below link to visit the ZAPS homepage to register the code that was included with your textbook, or to purchase a new registration code if your textbook did not include one.
ZAPS: The Norton Psychology Labs



Once you have registered and created your ZAPS account, click on the below tabs and follow the links to complete the ZAPS labs related to this chapter. Answer the questions that follow and submit to your instructor’s online Norton gradebook.


Lab 1

The Norton Psychology Labs: Sentence Verification

The Norton Psychology Labs: Sentence Verification

Questions

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Why do we say that the network model of Collins and Quillian has a "hierarchical" structure? How does this structure explain some of the effects observed in the sentence verification task?
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Why does it take more time to verify a sentence like "A canary breathes" compared to "A canary can sing"?
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In this exercise, you answered questions not only about animals but also about plants, drinks, and furniture. Draw a hierarchy illustrating how your knowledge of one of these three categories might be represented. (Use the animal-knowledge hierarchy shown in the "theory" section of this exercise as an example.)

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