Cog Sci 200 midterm exam umich with correct answers 100% 2026

Cog Sci 200 midterm exam umich with correct answers 100% 2026 associationist view - Correct Answer associations between verbal behaviors and rewards through positive reinforcement everything about lang is learned frontal lobe - Correct Answer thinking, memory, behavior, movement parietal lobe - Correct Answer language and touch temporal lobe - Correct Answer hearing, learning, and feelings occipital lobe - Correct Answer vision cerebellum - Correct Answer balance and coordination brain stem - Correct Answer breathing, heart rate, temperature superior/dorsal - Correct Answer to the top posterior/caudal - Correct Answer to the back inferior/ventral - Correct Answer to the bottom anterior/rostral - Correct Answer to the front four problems with associationist account - Correct Answer stimulus independence, productivity, systematicity, novelty hierarchical - Correct Answer a sentence is broken down into abstract constituents which can be further broken down recursive - Correct Answer allow for repeated application of certain rules that can operate on the output of other rules, which can form infinite loops. explains productivity combinatoric - Correct Answer phrase structure rules are defined and can be recombined in open-ended ways cognitive/Chomskian account of language - Correct Answer there are innate structures that aid us in learning language. use abstract combinatoric rules that are largely innate (universal grammar/phrase structure grammars) Chomsky's two critical observations of language - Correct Answer language has a unique pattern of universality, rules of language are combinatoric and made using highly abstract categories universality - Correct Answer language exists in all human societies within a group, everyone of normal intelligence develops lang languages have same complexity everywhere supports innatenes bc: how else would we explain this? poverty of the stimulus argument - Correct Answer language must be innate because children are given little explicit language knowledge, but have a complex output universal grammar hypothesis - Correct Answer all languages have an innate grammar template that allows for locally specified variation chomskian view that says it is the initial state of human mind that allows it to acquire and grow lang jukebox analogy (universal grammar) - Correct Answer Jukeboxes have a large amount of different music to play, they allow for locally specified variation. The music they play is not learned from the environment, its menu has prespecified options and the local environments (eg the person choosing the song) triggers the option. Like universal grammar Nicaraguan sign language - Correct Answer This shows that language is not taught, and not learned by imitation or analogy youngest signers were most likely to use combinatoric patterns functional level of language - Correct Answer mapping sounds to meanings algorithmic level of language - Correct Answer phrase structure trees physical level of language - Correct Answer primary auditory cortex, Wernicke's area, Broca's area, primary motor cortex (M1) Wernicke's area - Correct Answer temporal lobe, semantic region primary auditory cortex - Correct Answer tempora