COGNITIVE SCIENCE REVISION. ALL EXAM REVISION
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY GRADED
A+) (2024 UPDATE)
Production System Cycle: - ANSWER- Pattern matching, conflict resolution, execution of
matching rules.
Production Rule: - ANSWER- If-THEN statement; if condition met then execute action.
(Rules)
Limitations of Imagery: - ANSWER- Loss of details (surface information)
Propositional Networks - ANSWER- Set of interconnected concepts and relationships in which
long-term knowledge is held
Propositions: - ANSWER- factual statement, specific instance, concepts, relationships,
smallest unit with truth value, building blocks, independent of verbal representation.
Category - ANSWER- a set of things; rules for membership
Concept - ANSWER- knowledge that defines a category
Mental Economy - ANSWER- representations that need to store details; identification--
inherited properties.
Mental Buckets - ANSWER- concepts that allow us to form representations of objects, events,
and ideas.
,Disadvantage of Categorization: - ANSWER- distortion of between/within category difference
(Tajfel and Wilkes); line length estimationtask
Prototype - ANSWER- Representation "Average"; may not actually exist.
Feature Approach - ANSWER- Classical; Rule Based; all members equally good examples,
learning defining features. EX. Triangle
Prototype Theory - ANSWER- Category membership decisions are perceptual; more typical
items; verified more quickly.
Exemplar View - ANSWER- perception 2; storage of representation of specific examples in
memory; memory--comparison
Semantic Networks - ANSWER- General Knowledge, 2 link types, strength of association, no
explicit hierarchy.
Cognition - ANSWER- the act or process of knowing; the results of such processes
Cognitive Science is ______ - ANSWER- interdisciplinary
The information processing approach views thinking as a process of - ANSWER- symbol
manipulation
Your score on this practice quiz is an example of the ____ level of description. - ANSWER-
behavioral
Noam Chomsky is known for - ANSWER- adding the study of "deep structure" to linguistics
, Which of the following statements is NOT an assumption of cognitive science? - ANSWER-
Individual differences are of central interest.
Mental modules are assumed to be - ANSWER- domain specific AND informationally
encapsulated
Spearman believed in a single general mental ability called the ___ factor. - ANSWER- g
When an intelligent system processes several pieces of information simultaneously, we say that
____ has occurred. - ANSWER- parallel processing
Which of the following is NOT a major contributing discipline to the field of cognitive science? -
ANSWER- chemistry
One of the first scientists to address the question of machine intelligence was_____ - ANSWER-
Alan Turing
A cognitive architecture is assumed to be - ANSWER- innate
The term for the qualitative sensations that constitute subjective experience is ______________. -
ANSWER- qualia
The question of how the immaterial can interact with the physical is known as the ____________.
- ANSWER- mind-body problem
Theories of mind that posit only one substance, property, or process are called _______. -
ANSWER- monistic theories
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY GRADED
A+) (2024 UPDATE)
Production System Cycle: - ANSWER- Pattern matching, conflict resolution, execution of
matching rules.
Production Rule: - ANSWER- If-THEN statement; if condition met then execute action.
(Rules)
Limitations of Imagery: - ANSWER- Loss of details (surface information)
Propositional Networks - ANSWER- Set of interconnected concepts and relationships in which
long-term knowledge is held
Propositions: - ANSWER- factual statement, specific instance, concepts, relationships,
smallest unit with truth value, building blocks, independent of verbal representation.
Category - ANSWER- a set of things; rules for membership
Concept - ANSWER- knowledge that defines a category
Mental Economy - ANSWER- representations that need to store details; identification--
inherited properties.
Mental Buckets - ANSWER- concepts that allow us to form representations of objects, events,
and ideas.
,Disadvantage of Categorization: - ANSWER- distortion of between/within category difference
(Tajfel and Wilkes); line length estimationtask
Prototype - ANSWER- Representation "Average"; may not actually exist.
Feature Approach - ANSWER- Classical; Rule Based; all members equally good examples,
learning defining features. EX. Triangle
Prototype Theory - ANSWER- Category membership decisions are perceptual; more typical
items; verified more quickly.
Exemplar View - ANSWER- perception 2; storage of representation of specific examples in
memory; memory--comparison
Semantic Networks - ANSWER- General Knowledge, 2 link types, strength of association, no
explicit hierarchy.
Cognition - ANSWER- the act or process of knowing; the results of such processes
Cognitive Science is ______ - ANSWER- interdisciplinary
The information processing approach views thinking as a process of - ANSWER- symbol
manipulation
Your score on this practice quiz is an example of the ____ level of description. - ANSWER-
behavioral
Noam Chomsky is known for - ANSWER- adding the study of "deep structure" to linguistics
, Which of the following statements is NOT an assumption of cognitive science? - ANSWER-
Individual differences are of central interest.
Mental modules are assumed to be - ANSWER- domain specific AND informationally
encapsulated
Spearman believed in a single general mental ability called the ___ factor. - ANSWER- g
When an intelligent system processes several pieces of information simultaneously, we say that
____ has occurred. - ANSWER- parallel processing
Which of the following is NOT a major contributing discipline to the field of cognitive science? -
ANSWER- chemistry
One of the first scientists to address the question of machine intelligence was_____ - ANSWER-
Alan Turing
A cognitive architecture is assumed to be - ANSWER- innate
The term for the qualitative sensations that constitute subjective experience is ______________. -
ANSWER- qualia
The question of how the immaterial can interact with the physical is known as the ____________.
- ANSWER- mind-body problem
Theories of mind that posit only one substance, property, or process are called _______. -
ANSWER- monistic theories
