Cognitive Science Exam 1- Free Response questions with answers

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State the short definition of Cognitive Science discussed in the lecture. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Science of the Mind. || || || || ||




State the broader definition of cognitive Science discussed in the lecture. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Explicit & Implicit Cognitive processes of the
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Mind.



What issues does the simple definition emphasize? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔The shorter definition emphasizes knowledge, consciousness, the mind,
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and asks important questions like "What is a Mind?"
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What issues does the broader definition emphasize? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔The broader definition emphasizes artificial cognitive machines,
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intelligent behavior, "how necessary is consciousness for cognition" and "is a
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biological brain necessary for cognition?" || || || ||




What 3 core questions follow from traditional Cognitive Science's
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consideration of mind, brain, and computer are related? - CORRECT|| || || || || || || || || ||



ANSWERS ✔✔1. How are mental states & physical brains states related?
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2. Can a machine generate a mind?
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3. Does a brain function anything like a computer?
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, What are the primary sub-disciplines of interdisciplinary cognitive science? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Philosophy || || ||




2. Linguistics
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3. Psychology
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4. Artificial Intelligence
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5. Neuroscience
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6. Anthropology
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Explain Hobbes' theory of mental representation including limitations of the
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proposed representations, and inspiration from invention of a mechanical
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calculator. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Hobbes' theory suggest that the mind
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contains mental images, we can think of a word and imagine it. It becomes
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the proposed basis for explicit cognition. Hobbes also speculated that mental
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images can be manipulated like a calculator.
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Describe the conceptual basis of information theory, including the nature of
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information transmission and quantification. Explain how noise, bandwidth,
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and coding affect information transmission. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Information Theory is the specification of information transmitted in || || || || || || || || ||



telecommunication networks. The information can be transmitted through || || || || || || || ||



noise - free or noisy channels that maybe have bandwidth limitations. This
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will affect how much of the message is transmitted. Coding will affect the
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message of content of the message depending on the symbols as the message
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needs to be decoded after being sent.
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