4 - Cognition for HCI Flashcards

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What is experimental cognition?

A

Type of cognition that is fast, intuitive and effortless

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What is reflective cognition?

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Type of cognition that is slow, requires mental effort and attention

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3
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Which type of cognition is more reliable?

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Reflective cognition

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Why is attention important in HCI?

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Keeps users hooked and guides them through the system

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What does attention depend on?

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On whether the user has clear goals, and if the information is visible in the environment

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What are the 2 types of goals a user can have?

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Clear goals and unsure goals

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What is a clear goal?

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When the user knows exactly what they’re looking for, and just match it to the environment to find it

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What is an unsure goal?

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When the user browses through information and lets their attention be guided by what appeals to them

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Why does the way information is presented matter?

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It affects how the user understands it/ perceives it

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What does effective multitasking depend on?

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The nature of tasks and the amount of attention each task requires

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What are the harms of multitasking?

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Overloads one’s capacity to focus, the user is more prone to lose their train of thought

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What is perception?

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How information is acquired by the environment by the 5 senses and transformed into individual understandings of the world (sense + cognition)

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What is proprioception?

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Our body’s ability to sense movement, action and location

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What is interoception?

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Our sense of the internal state of our body (hunger, heart rate, pain, etc.)

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15
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What is the overarching theme of the Gestalt principles?

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See the system as a whole, rather than individual units

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What is closure (Gestalt)?

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People fill in the blanks to perceive a complete object

17
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What is common fate (Gestalt)?

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Elements that coordinate movement are grouped together

18
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What is continuation (Gestalt)?

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The human eye follows the smoothest path

19
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What is similarity (Gestalt)?

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Similar elements are grouped together

20
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What is figure-ground (Gestalt)?

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Perceiving objects as either being in the foreground or the background

21
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What is proximity (Gestalt)?

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Things that are closer together appear to be more related than things that are spaced farther aprt

22
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What is symmetry (Gestalt)?

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The brain prefers symmetrical designs

23
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What factors affect information retrieval?

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  • How much attention is allocated to it (the more attention, the more you process something)
  • Context in which the information is encoded
  • People are better at recognition than recall
24
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What is incidental learning?

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Learning when there is no intention to do so (ex. learn new words when reading a book for fun)

25
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What is intentional learning?

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Goal-oriented learning (ex. studying for a test)

26
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True or False: People learn better by doing things.

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True

27
Q

In terms of writing and listening, which is permanent and which is transient?

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Writing is permanent (can be re-read), listening is transient (cannot listen again, unless recorded)

28
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Why is reading faster than listening or speaking?

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Because written text can be scanned

29
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In terms of listening, writing, and speaking, which requires less cognitive effort?

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Listening

30
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What is reasoning?

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Working through different scenarios and deciding which one provides the best solution

31
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What is the human information processing model?

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Input/ stimuli > encoding > comparison (between response options) > response selection > response execution > output/ response

32
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What is the classical approach to cognition in robots?

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Intelligence as computation (cognitivism)