COGS 100 Midterm Exam Questions And Correct Answers
Cognition - ANSWER act or procress of knowing; perception
Computation - ANSWER a process that manipulates a given set of data
Perception - ANSWER - selects the location where your eyes fixate but almost all the
time without DIRECT CONSCIOUS CONTROL
- can be brought under CONSCIOUS CONTROL when forced to remember/focus
Alan Turing - ANSWER father of theoretical computer science and AI
Processes of the Mind - ANSWER PERCEPTION
MEMORY
ATTENTION
CONSCIOUSNESS
(those f**ks studying off the laptop)
Philosophy - ANSWER -Approach: ask q's, collect facts and data, use logic and
reasoning to answer q's
-mind-body problem
-knowledge acquisition problem
-consciousness
-embodied cognition (environmental emphasis)
-situational cognition (knowing is separate from doing)
Psychology - ANSWER - Approach: Designs experiments focussed on a specific aspect
, of the mental process, preformed by multiple subjects, more practical
- stimuli = behaviour
Neuroscience - ANSWER -Approach: experiment with brain regions, focus on hardware
instead of abstract
-imaging and lesion technology
Linguistics - ANSWER -Approach: studies different cultures and experiment with
subjects
-social and cultural upbringings affecting the mind
- theories of evolution and natural selection (men are sick at finding new routes but
women are good at remembering routes)
we slay real life logic and survival problems but can barely understand general logic
probs for some reason
Artificial Intelligence - ANSWER -Approach: program machines to think, learn, solve
problems, and produce human-like responses by building computational models of the
various processes of the mind
Sub-Categories of Cogsci - ANSWER -Emotions: influence on conscious thought, can
computers have emotions?
Network: how the brain and neurons are connected and work with one another to
approach modeling and knowledge representation for human cognition. Evolution: how
the mind was shaped. Social: to understand how others think in society, influences,
behavior, prejudice, beliefs, etc. Robitics: the AI branch researching how our whole
cognitive system works to yield motor acts; building robots n' shit.
Formal Definition of Cognitive Science - ANSWER search for an operational explanation
of the intelligence of the human mind
Central Hypothesis of COGS - ANSWER Process = Data Representation + Goal driven
data manipulation procedure
Cognitive Theory - Mind Thinking = representations + procedures
Cognition - ANSWER act or procress of knowing; perception
Computation - ANSWER a process that manipulates a given set of data
Perception - ANSWER - selects the location where your eyes fixate but almost all the
time without DIRECT CONSCIOUS CONTROL
- can be brought under CONSCIOUS CONTROL when forced to remember/focus
Alan Turing - ANSWER father of theoretical computer science and AI
Processes of the Mind - ANSWER PERCEPTION
MEMORY
ATTENTION
CONSCIOUSNESS
(those f**ks studying off the laptop)
Philosophy - ANSWER -Approach: ask q's, collect facts and data, use logic and
reasoning to answer q's
-mind-body problem
-knowledge acquisition problem
-consciousness
-embodied cognition (environmental emphasis)
-situational cognition (knowing is separate from doing)
Psychology - ANSWER - Approach: Designs experiments focussed on a specific aspect
, of the mental process, preformed by multiple subjects, more practical
- stimuli = behaviour
Neuroscience - ANSWER -Approach: experiment with brain regions, focus on hardware
instead of abstract
-imaging and lesion technology
Linguistics - ANSWER -Approach: studies different cultures and experiment with
subjects
-social and cultural upbringings affecting the mind
- theories of evolution and natural selection (men are sick at finding new routes but
women are good at remembering routes)
we slay real life logic and survival problems but can barely understand general logic
probs for some reason
Artificial Intelligence - ANSWER -Approach: program machines to think, learn, solve
problems, and produce human-like responses by building computational models of the
various processes of the mind
Sub-Categories of Cogsci - ANSWER -Emotions: influence on conscious thought, can
computers have emotions?
Network: how the brain and neurons are connected and work with one another to
approach modeling and knowledge representation for human cognition. Evolution: how
the mind was shaped. Social: to understand how others think in society, influences,
behavior, prejudice, beliefs, etc. Robitics: the AI branch researching how our whole
cognitive system works to yield motor acts; building robots n' shit.
Formal Definition of Cognitive Science - ANSWER search for an operational explanation
of the intelligence of the human mind
Central Hypothesis of COGS - ANSWER Process = Data Representation + Goal driven
data manipulation procedure
Cognitive Theory - Mind Thinking = representations + procedures
