Cog Sci 200 midterm exam umich
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associationist view - ✔✔associations between verbal behaviors and rewards through
positive reinforcement
everything about lang is learned
frontal lobe - ✔✔thinking, memory, behavior, movement
parietal lobe - ✔✔language and touch
temporal lobe - ✔✔hearing, learning, and feelings
occipital lobe - ✔✔vision
cerebellum - ✔✔balance and coordination
brain stem - ✔✔breathing, heart rate, temperature
superior/dorsal - ✔✔to the top
posterior/caudal - ✔✔to the back
inferior/ventral - ✔✔to the bottom
anterior/rostral - ✔✔to the front
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, four problems with associationist account - ✔✔stimulus independence, productivity,
systematicity, novelty
hierarchical - ✔✔a sentence is broken down into abstract constituents which can be
further broken down
recursive - ✔✔allow for repeated application of certain rules that can operate on the
output of other rules, which can form infinite loops. explains productivity
combinatoric - ✔✔phrase structure rules are defined and can be recombined in open-
ended ways
cognitive/Chomskian account of language - ✔✔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 - ✔✔language has a unique pattern of
universality, rules of language are combinatoric and made using highly abstract
categories
universality - ✔✔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?
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
associationist view - ✔✔associations between verbal behaviors and rewards through
positive reinforcement
everything about lang is learned
frontal lobe - ✔✔thinking, memory, behavior, movement
parietal lobe - ✔✔language and touch
temporal lobe - ✔✔hearing, learning, and feelings
occipital lobe - ✔✔vision
cerebellum - ✔✔balance and coordination
brain stem - ✔✔breathing, heart rate, temperature
superior/dorsal - ✔✔to the top
posterior/caudal - ✔✔to the back
inferior/ventral - ✔✔to the bottom
anterior/rostral - ✔✔to the front
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, four problems with associationist account - ✔✔stimulus independence, productivity,
systematicity, novelty
hierarchical - ✔✔a sentence is broken down into abstract constituents which can be
further broken down
recursive - ✔✔allow for repeated application of certain rules that can operate on the
output of other rules, which can form infinite loops. explains productivity
combinatoric - ✔✔phrase structure rules are defined and can be recombined in open-
ended ways
cognitive/Chomskian account of language - ✔✔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 - ✔✔language has a unique pattern of
universality, rules of language are combinatoric and made using highly abstract
categories
universality - ✔✔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?
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