Cogsci 200 Exam 1 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is cognitive science? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Crosses multiple disciplines
2. Seeks how and why questions
3. Seeks deep explanations
4. Grapples with very hard problems
5.
Patient H.M. - CORRECT ANSWER - Had tissues in his hippocampus removed
Taught us that there are multiple memory systems.
What cognitive science is not - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. A fringe topic of psychology
2. Just about cognition
Aim of cognitive science - CORRECT ANSWER - Seeks to understand the brain in all its
facets
Pinker's robot challenge - CORRECT ANSWER - One sensory input has multiple potential
outputs.
Forward optics - CORRECT ANSWER - Determining a 2D pattern of light that will fall
on photo receptors given a 3D scene and light sources.
Reverse optics - CORRECT ANSWER - Determining a 3D scene from a 2D pattern of
light
Rods and cones in the human retina - CORRECT ANSWER - 120M rods, 6M cones
, Problem - CORRECT ANSWER - A computational function with an input and output
Underspecified problem - CORRECT ANSWER - Not enough information in the problem
input to determine a unique output
Reality of the intuition "we directly see what is out there in the world" - CORRECT
ANSWER - We see what our brain guesses is out there based on the 2D stream of data
from the eyes.
Reality of the intuition "if something is within our visual field we see it, if not we don't" -
CORRECT ANSWER - Our brains can make wrong guesses. Can see things that aren't
there, and miss things that are
Reality of the intuition "Perceiving is a wholistic, conscious process" - CORRECT
ANSWER - Only some processes have outputs that are available to conscious awareness.
4 Lessons from blindsight - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) vision is possible without
conscious awareness
2) brain performs useful computations that complete a loop from perception to action without
conscious awareness
3) There may be specialized visual problems that help solve the problem of navigation
4) May be specialized visual processes that help solve the problem of knowing what other people
are feeling.
Prosopagnosia - CORRECT ANSWER - Can consciously see, but are unable to process
faces normally
Capgras delusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Intact face recognition but impaired visual
emotional processing
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is cognitive science? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Crosses multiple disciplines
2. Seeks how and why questions
3. Seeks deep explanations
4. Grapples with very hard problems
5.
Patient H.M. - CORRECT ANSWER - Had tissues in his hippocampus removed
Taught us that there are multiple memory systems.
What cognitive science is not - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. A fringe topic of psychology
2. Just about cognition
Aim of cognitive science - CORRECT ANSWER - Seeks to understand the brain in all its
facets
Pinker's robot challenge - CORRECT ANSWER - One sensory input has multiple potential
outputs.
Forward optics - CORRECT ANSWER - Determining a 2D pattern of light that will fall
on photo receptors given a 3D scene and light sources.
Reverse optics - CORRECT ANSWER - Determining a 3D scene from a 2D pattern of
light
Rods and cones in the human retina - CORRECT ANSWER - 120M rods, 6M cones
, Problem - CORRECT ANSWER - A computational function with an input and output
Underspecified problem - CORRECT ANSWER - Not enough information in the problem
input to determine a unique output
Reality of the intuition "we directly see what is out there in the world" - CORRECT
ANSWER - We see what our brain guesses is out there based on the 2D stream of data
from the eyes.
Reality of the intuition "if something is within our visual field we see it, if not we don't" -
CORRECT ANSWER - Our brains can make wrong guesses. Can see things that aren't
there, and miss things that are
Reality of the intuition "Perceiving is a wholistic, conscious process" - CORRECT
ANSWER - Only some processes have outputs that are available to conscious awareness.
4 Lessons from blindsight - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) vision is possible without
conscious awareness
2) brain performs useful computations that complete a loop from perception to action without
conscious awareness
3) There may be specialized visual problems that help solve the problem of navigation
4) May be specialized visual processes that help solve the problem of knowing what other people
are feeling.
Prosopagnosia - CORRECT ANSWER - Can consciously see, but are unable to process
faces normally
Capgras delusion - CORRECT ANSWER - Intact face recognition but impaired visual
emotional processing
