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Cogsci C100 Midterm Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Cognitive science
⼀Answer:⼀ Study of the mind and cognition that integrates a
number of different academic disciplines
Philosophers
⼀Answer:⼀ Deductive reasoning
Computational model of mind
⼀Answer:⼀ Alan Turing. Cognition involves algorithmic process of
information processing.
Neuroscience
⼀Answer:⼀ uses different tools to study brain
Cognitive psychologists
⼀Answer:⼀ Modeling
AI researchers
⼀Answer:⼀ Computer models
Roboticists
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⼀Answer:⼀ Build/test machines
AI
⼀Answer:⼀ Tries to design computer models that accomplish the
same cognitive tasks that humans do
Machine Learning
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
Deep Learning
⼀Answer:⼀ a subset of Machine Learning involving numerous layers
of algorithms.
➜ Machine does not need to be provided with structured data
Neural Networks
⼀Answer:⼀ Networks of algorithms that are similar to the neural
networks present in the human brain
Frontal lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ involved in speaking and muscle movements and in
making plans and judgments
Parietal lobes
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⼀Answer:⼀ Include the sensory cortex, important in spatial
navigation
occipital lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ include the visual areas, which receive visual information
from the
opposite visual field
Temporal lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ auditory areas
Motor cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls
voluntary movement
Sensory cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and
processes body sensations
Limbic cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ phylogenetically older part of cortex
Amygdala
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ Donut-shaped structure that is important in memory
Pollak Reading
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
Cogsci C100 Midterm Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Cognitive science
⼀Answer:⼀ Study of the mind and cognition that integrates a
number of different academic disciplines
Philosophers
⼀Answer:⼀ Deductive reasoning
Computational model of mind
⼀Answer:⼀ Alan Turing. Cognition involves algorithmic process of
information processing.
Neuroscience
⼀Answer:⼀ uses different tools to study brain
Cognitive psychologists
⼀Answer:⼀ Modeling
AI researchers
⼀Answer:⼀ Computer models
Roboticists
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⼀Answer:⼀ Build/test machines
AI
⼀Answer:⼀ Tries to design computer models that accomplish the
same cognitive tasks that humans do
Machine Learning
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
Deep Learning
⼀Answer:⼀ a subset of Machine Learning involving numerous layers
of algorithms.
➜ Machine does not need to be provided with structured data
Neural Networks
⼀Answer:⼀ Networks of algorithms that are similar to the neural
networks present in the human brain
Frontal lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ involved in speaking and muscle movements and in
making plans and judgments
Parietal lobes
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⼀Answer:⼀ Include the sensory cortex, important in spatial
navigation
occipital lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ include the visual areas, which receive visual information
from the
opposite visual field
Temporal lobes
⼀Answer:⼀ auditory areas
Motor cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls
voluntary movement
Sensory cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and
processes body sensations
Limbic cortex
⼀Answer:⼀ phylogenetically older part of cortex
Amygdala
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ Donut-shaped structure that is important in memory
Pollak Reading
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
⼀Answer:⼀ 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
