Cogsci C100 Midterm Exam
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Cognitive science - ✔✔Study of the mind and cognition that integrates a number of
different academic disciplines
Philosophers - ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Computational model of mind - ✔✔Alan Turing. Cognition involves algorithmic
process of information processing.
Neuroscience - ✔✔uses different tools to study brain
Cognitive psychologists - ✔✔Modeling
AI researchers - ✔✔Computer models
Roboticists - ✔✔Build/test machines
AI - ✔✔Tries to design computer models that accomplish the same cognitive tasks that
humans do
Machine Learning - ✔✔a subset of AI that allows computers to "learn" (i.e.,
progressively improve performance on a specific task) by creating new algorithms to
produce a desired output based on structured (or unstructured) data that is provided
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,Deep Learning - ✔✔a subset of Machine Learning involving numerous layers of
algorithms.
➜ Machine does not need to be provided with structured data
Neural Networks - ✔✔Networks of algorithms that are similar to the neural networks
present in the human brain
Frontal lobes - ✔✔involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans
and judgments
Parietal lobes - ✔✔Include the sensory cortex, important in spatial navigation
occipital lobes - ✔✔include the visual areas, which receive visual information from the
opposite visual field
Temporal lobes - ✔✔auditory areas
Motor cortex - ✔✔area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement
Sensory cortex - ✔✔area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes
body sensations
Limbic cortex - ✔✔phylogenetically older part of cortex
Amygdala - ✔✔Two almond-shaped neural clusters that are components of the limbic
system and are linked to emotion, particularly fear and aggression
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, Hippocampus - ✔✔Donut-shaped structure that is important in memory
Pollak Reading - ✔✔studied 40 abused children (mean 9 yrs) and how it changed
children's perceptual preferences and altered the ways children categorized angry facial
expressions. Suggests affective experiences CAN INFLUENCE representations of basic
emotions
Template matching model - ✔✔Object perception involves a comparison of the stimulus
with set of templates or specific patterns stored in memory
Problem? cannot account for complexity and flexibility of object recognition (e.g.,
individual differences in handwriting)
Feature-analysis model - ✔✔discrimination of objects is based on
small number of characteristics of stimuli
Supported by neurological evidence
Problem: Cannot explain recognition of complex objects with
features that move and distort (e.g., horse or kangaroo)
Recognition-by-components model - ✔✔View that an object is represented as an
arrangement of simple 3-D shapes called geons
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Cognitive science - ✔✔Study of the mind and cognition that integrates a number of
different academic disciplines
Philosophers - ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Computational model of mind - ✔✔Alan Turing. Cognition involves algorithmic
process of information processing.
Neuroscience - ✔✔uses different tools to study brain
Cognitive psychologists - ✔✔Modeling
AI researchers - ✔✔Computer models
Roboticists - ✔✔Build/test machines
AI - ✔✔Tries to design computer models that accomplish the same cognitive tasks that
humans do
Machine Learning - ✔✔a subset of AI that allows computers to "learn" (i.e.,
progressively improve performance on a specific task) by creating new algorithms to
produce a desired output based on structured (or unstructured) data that is provided
EMILY CHARLENE © 2025, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,Deep Learning - ✔✔a subset of Machine Learning involving numerous layers of
algorithms.
➜ Machine does not need to be provided with structured data
Neural Networks - ✔✔Networks of algorithms that are similar to the neural networks
present in the human brain
Frontal lobes - ✔✔involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans
and judgments
Parietal lobes - ✔✔Include the sensory cortex, important in spatial navigation
occipital lobes - ✔✔include the visual areas, which receive visual information from the
opposite visual field
Temporal lobes - ✔✔auditory areas
Motor cortex - ✔✔area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement
Sensory cortex - ✔✔area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes
body sensations
Limbic cortex - ✔✔phylogenetically older part of cortex
Amygdala - ✔✔Two almond-shaped neural clusters that are components of the limbic
system and are linked to emotion, particularly fear and aggression
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, Hippocampus - ✔✔Donut-shaped structure that is important in memory
Pollak Reading - ✔✔studied 40 abused children (mean 9 yrs) and how it changed
children's perceptual preferences and altered the ways children categorized angry facial
expressions. Suggests affective experiences CAN INFLUENCE representations of basic
emotions
Template matching model - ✔✔Object perception involves a comparison of the stimulus
with set of templates or specific patterns stored in memory
Problem? cannot account for complexity and flexibility of object recognition (e.g.,
individual differences in handwriting)
Feature-analysis model - ✔✔discrimination of objects is based on
small number of characteristics of stimuli
Supported by neurological evidence
Problem: Cannot explain recognition of complex objects with
features that move and distort (e.g., horse or kangaroo)
Recognition-by-components model - ✔✔View that an object is represented as an
arrangement of simple 3-D shapes called geons
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