COGS Q Final Study Guide
?1. [Smith, Thelon, et al.] Which of the following experimental manipulations
Made infants *less* likely to commit the A-not-B error?
A1. Conservation 2. [General] The phenomenon of synaesthesia supports which of the following
Conclusions about modularity in the human cognitive architecture?
A2. supports the idea that the color-induction process in grapheme-color synaesthesia is automatic
-concurrent color sensation is treated by the brain as a meaningful stimulus subject to contextual integration process
3. [Cosmides and Tooby] Among the following goals, which is NOT an aim of evolutionary psychology?
3A. NOT:
-swing of the nature/nurture pendulum
-behavior genetics
-general purpose mechanisms
-fitness-maximization is a mentally represented goal
4. [Class] "Theory of mind" refers to...
A4. People's ideas about their own and others' mental states -- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict
5. [Class] Which of the following experiments, a video of which was shown in class, is used to assess whether young children understand the concept of conservation? A5. Conservation
6. [Seeley et al.] Why is inhibition important in decision-making networks?
A6. Because the inhibitory connections help insure that the only one of the alternatives is chosen and may enables statistically optimal decision making.
7. [Brang et al. / Ramachandran] In the videotaped lecture of Ramachandran, he describes people who automatically visualize numbers arranged in a spatial sequence with specific locations for each number. Their self-reports of the spatial layout correspond to which of the following measurable phenomena?
A7.
8. [Henrich et al.] Egocentric vs. allocentric spatial reasoning was used by these authors to illustrate a contrast between which two kinds of human populations?
?A8. Egocentric= location of objects relative to self/ the man is on the left side of the flag pole
Allocentric= 1. Cardinal direction/ the man is left
Made infants *less* likely to commit the A-not-B error?
A1. Conservation 2. [General] The phenomenon of synaesthesia supports which of the following
Conclusions about modularity in the human cognitive architecture?
A2. supports the idea that the color-induction process in grapheme-color synaesthesia is automatic
-concurrent color sensation is treated by the brain as a meaningful stimulus subject to contextual integration process
3. [Cosmides and Tooby] Among the following goals, which is NOT an aim of evolutionary psychology?
3A. NOT:
-swing of the nature/nurture pendulum
-behavior genetics
-general purpose mechanisms
-fitness-maximization is a mentally represented goal
4. [Class] "Theory of mind" refers to...
A4. People's ideas about their own and others' mental states -- about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict
5. [Class] Which of the following experiments, a video of which was shown in class, is used to assess whether young children understand the concept of conservation? A5. Conservation
6. [Seeley et al.] Why is inhibition important in decision-making networks?
A6. Because the inhibitory connections help insure that the only one of the alternatives is chosen and may enables statistically optimal decision making.
7. [Brang et al. / Ramachandran] In the videotaped lecture of Ramachandran, he describes people who automatically visualize numbers arranged in a spatial sequence with specific locations for each number. Their self-reports of the spatial layout correspond to which of the following measurable phenomena?
A7.
8. [Henrich et al.] Egocentric vs. allocentric spatial reasoning was used by these authors to illustrate a contrast between which two kinds of human populations?
?A8. Egocentric= location of objects relative to self/ the man is on the left side of the flag pole
Allocentric= 1. Cardinal direction/ the man is left