CogSci 200 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
TRUE OR FALSE? The brain's visual system is like a False
camera. What we see through our eyes is a direct window
onto an objective reality.
Which of the following statements about the problem of The problem of inverse optics is underdetermined and is therefore very difficult to
inverse optics is/are true? solve.
Our perceptual system solves the problem of inverse optics by using hidden,
built-in assumptions about how the world works
Consider the picture below. Based on the Ramachandran A white triangle is sitting on top of another triangle and three circles.
and Anstis article, which hypothesis would be preferred
by the visual system?
When the below images are shown in succession, a Things tend to move in a straight line.
person will see either up-to-down motion or right-to-left
motion. Which hidden assumption of the visual system
does this illustrate?
Which of the following claims is NOT made in the reading Because people do not typically find Bayesian reasoning intuitive in conscious
by Brian Scholl? decision-making, we should doubt that the perceptual system engages in
unconscious Bayesian inference.
, TRUE/FALSE: According to the reading by Brian Scholl, False
because Bayesian inference is a learning method,
Bayesian theories of perception and cognition are NOT
compatible with nativist theories that assume innate
structures and knowledge.
A person has damage to both the lateral geniculate Total blindness.
nucleus AND the primary visual cortex (V1). Which of the
following would be most likely to result from this
damage?
Which term from the Bayes' Rule equation corresponds P (scene)
to the notion of the perceptual system's built-in
assumptions about the properties of the physical world?
Which of the following claims about prosopagnosia is It is a selective deficit in processing and recognizing faces that occurs despite
true? otherwise intact visual perception
What precisely did we learn from the Sugita (2008) How exactly faces are processed by control monkeys and by monkeys deprived
experiment about monkeys raised without exposure to of exposure to monkey or human faces.
faces?
What is innately-specified about face processing in monkeys.
What the adaptive function of the innately-specified face processing is for baby
monkeys.
All of the above.
None of the above. (Correct One)
TRUE OR FALSE: According to the reading by Allison True
Gopnik, 18-month-olds (but not 14-month-olds) are able
to recognize that other people have preferences (e.g. for
certain foods) that differ from their own preferences.
TRUE or FALSE: According to the reading by Allison True
Gopnik, babies as young as 8-months-old can
understand the relation between a statistical sample and
a population.
TRUE OR FALSE: According to the violation of False
expectation method, an important methodology in the
field of infant cognition, babies look longer at
predictable events than at unexpected ones.
Which of the following claims is/are true about the It provides evidence that children as young as 15-months-old understand that
modified false belief task involving the toy melon? other people have different, even false beliefs.
It uses the violation of expectation method (i.e. its measure is looking times)
CORRECT Answers
TRUE OR FALSE? The brain's visual system is like a False
camera. What we see through our eyes is a direct window
onto an objective reality.
Which of the following statements about the problem of The problem of inverse optics is underdetermined and is therefore very difficult to
inverse optics is/are true? solve.
Our perceptual system solves the problem of inverse optics by using hidden,
built-in assumptions about how the world works
Consider the picture below. Based on the Ramachandran A white triangle is sitting on top of another triangle and three circles.
and Anstis article, which hypothesis would be preferred
by the visual system?
When the below images are shown in succession, a Things tend to move in a straight line.
person will see either up-to-down motion or right-to-left
motion. Which hidden assumption of the visual system
does this illustrate?
Which of the following claims is NOT made in the reading Because people do not typically find Bayesian reasoning intuitive in conscious
by Brian Scholl? decision-making, we should doubt that the perceptual system engages in
unconscious Bayesian inference.
, TRUE/FALSE: According to the reading by Brian Scholl, False
because Bayesian inference is a learning method,
Bayesian theories of perception and cognition are NOT
compatible with nativist theories that assume innate
structures and knowledge.
A person has damage to both the lateral geniculate Total blindness.
nucleus AND the primary visual cortex (V1). Which of the
following would be most likely to result from this
damage?
Which term from the Bayes' Rule equation corresponds P (scene)
to the notion of the perceptual system's built-in
assumptions about the properties of the physical world?
Which of the following claims about prosopagnosia is It is a selective deficit in processing and recognizing faces that occurs despite
true? otherwise intact visual perception
What precisely did we learn from the Sugita (2008) How exactly faces are processed by control monkeys and by monkeys deprived
experiment about monkeys raised without exposure to of exposure to monkey or human faces.
faces?
What is innately-specified about face processing in monkeys.
What the adaptive function of the innately-specified face processing is for baby
monkeys.
All of the above.
None of the above. (Correct One)
TRUE OR FALSE: According to the reading by Allison True
Gopnik, 18-month-olds (but not 14-month-olds) are able
to recognize that other people have preferences (e.g. for
certain foods) that differ from their own preferences.
TRUE or FALSE: According to the reading by Allison True
Gopnik, babies as young as 8-months-old can
understand the relation between a statistical sample and
a population.
TRUE OR FALSE: According to the violation of False
expectation method, an important methodology in the
field of infant cognition, babies look longer at
predictable events than at unexpected ones.
Which of the following claims is/are true about the It provides evidence that children as young as 15-months-old understand that
modified false belief task involving the toy melon? other people have different, even false beliefs.
It uses the violation of expectation method (i.e. its measure is looking times)
