Cognition Psych test 2

  1. What were the major changes between studying the mind under the behavioral paradigm to studying the mind under the information processing paradigm?
    Behaviorism focuses on the observational behaviors of what we do while the information process focuses on the inner workings on how we process things in the mind
  2. Why was the shift to the information processing paradigm also called the "cognitive revolution"?
    It is called the cognitive revolution because this was the turning point of opening up all the cognitive stuff of the mind using manipulation and objective testing
  3. What is an algorithm and how does it relate to the information processing paradigm?
    An algorithm is a specific function that is
  4. What is artificial intelligence?
    the field of trying to make intelligent machines
  5. What is so important about the turing test?
    It is important to distinguish intelligence form an algebraic function
  6. Why is Terry Bisson's short story about meat so important?
    It's important because it brings out how we are biased into thinking that things that are not made like us (such as computers) have no minds
  7. What's so important about Searle's Chinese Room argument?
    What's important is that just because a computer has a huge chinese dictionary it doesn't mean that it understands or thought. It just processed symbols that mean nothing to it so it comes to say that information processing is not the same as having a mind
  8. What did Stroop's famous experiment show?
    That unconscious processes occur at the same time as conscious processing

    In the experiment delay in time meant that the unconscious reading interfered with the conscious goal of naming the ink
  9. How did Stroop show this?
    He gave participants different color words to view and to name the color ink they were printed in.
  10. What did Sternberg find about working memory?
    We search working memory exhaustingly. That when we find something we are searching for we stop. So reaction time was quicker when what they were looking for in his experiment were present unlike when it was absent
  11. How did Sternberg show this?
    He gave the participants a list of digits and would tell them to memorize it. One group would then be presented the list where the digit they are looking for is present while the other group had a list where the digit was absent
  12. What did Treisman find about visual processing?
    She figured out that we have the "pop out" effect which is a built in mechanism for detecting features
  13. What did Shepard and Metzler find about mental imagery?
    the participant rotates the image back to center in their mind before doing a comparison with it
  14. How did they show this?
    They showed two abstract images and asked whether or not the images were the same or not. One of the images was sitting upright while the other one was turned in a different angle
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Cognition Psych test 2
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cognition
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