Cogsci c100 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is the job of cogsci? bringing perspectives from neuro, psych, CS, phil, lang, and anthro together what method do philosophers use? argument and analysis/ deductive reasoning what methods do psychologists use? experimental techniques and paradigms what methods do neuroscientists use? spacial/temporal resolution, case studies, lesions, brain imaging what methods do cognitive psychologists use? modeling what methods do AI researchers use? computer mode...

Midterm Exam: COGSCI C100 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: face recognition Answer: Face Recognition is "special" - Single cell recordings of monkeys show activation of particular cells in lower temporal lobe only when full-face photos of other monkeys are presented Q: Recognition accuracy for faces and houses: parts vs. whole Answer: •Participants were shown series of faces with person's name and series of houses wi...

Final Exam: COGSCI C100 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: What is Acceptance and transformation? Answer: -Make peace with our negative emotions -Underlying premise of mindfulness practice Q: How to do mindfulness in daily life? Answer: - Engage in activities with full focus of attention (i..e walk on earth to feel ground) Q: What emotion that confers the greatest health benefits? What happens to people who have low level...

Final Exam: COGSCI C100 Guide (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: Meditation & Default Mode Network (DMN): Answer: Meditators from various traditions show reduced activity in their Default Mode Network (DMN) when meditating, as well as when they are not meditating - The DMN or "task negative network": Includes posterior cingulate cortex(PCC), medial prefrontal cortex(mPFC), angular gyrus - Is active when we are not focused on ...

Midterm Exam: COGSCI C100 Guide(Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: machine learning Answer: the extraction of knowledge from data based on algorithms created from training data Q: SQ3R Method Answer: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review Q: frontal lobe Answer: speaking, muscle movements, making plans and judgements Q: parietal lobes Answer: include the sensory cortex Q: occipital lobes A...

Alan Turing - father of cognitive science due to his invention of the turing machine - understood cognition as an algorithmic system of processing parallel processing - the connectionist perspective that processing of many aspects of a problem occur simultaneously - popular in the 90s and associated with the growth of attention in cognitive science artificial intelligence computer models made to accomplish the same cognitive tasks that humans do machine learning a subs...

machine learning computers to "learn" by creating new algorithms to produce desired output based on structured data that's provided deep learning involves numerous layers of algorithms without having to have structured data neural networks networks of algorithms that are similar to the neural networks present in the human brain frontal lobes involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans/judgements parietal lobes sensory cortex occipital ...