COGSCI C100 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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COGSCI C100 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers

Template matching model

⼀Answer:⼀ object perception involves a comparison of the stimulus
with set of templates or specific patterns stored in memory

Feature-analysis model

⼀Answer:⼀ discrimination of objects is based on small number of
characteristics of stimuli

Recognition-by-components model

⼀Answer:⼀ view that an object is represented as an arrangement of
simple 3D shapes called geons

Prototype model

⼀Answer:⼀ object perception involves a comparison of the stimulus
with ideal, abstract example

Artificial neural networks

⼀Answer:⼀ the nodes or neurons are organized into layers in much
the same way that human neural networks are

Network behavior

⼀Answer:⼀ the weights attached to the connections between pairs of
units in adjacent layers determine the overall behavior of the network

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Human neural networks

⼀Answer:⼀ excitatory and inhibitory neurons of various strengths
connect to a particular neuron in human neural networks

Bias term

⼀Answer:⼀ the bias term indicates what the weighted sum needs to
be before the node/neuron will activate

Activation of a neuron

⼀Answer:⼀ There is a necessary threshold needed for neuron
activation in human neural networks

Pathway 1

⼀Answer:⼀ visual cortex of perception, the entire loop, slower,
includes sensory cortex, a fear stimulus that doesn't surprise or excite
fear

Pathway 2

⼀Answer:⼀ limbic system of perception, fear stimuli, jump scares,
quicker

Visual agnosia

⼀Answer:⼀ inability to recognize/identify visual objects despite
relatively good visual perception (usually due to damage in occipital
or temporal lobes)

Visual neglect syndrome