Cog Sci 200 midterm exam umich UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
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
Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
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
