Chapter 5

Question 1

What are the three requirements for a good cognitive architecture?

Answer 1

Functional criteria
Behavioral criteria
Neurophysiological criteria

Question 2

What is the Function criteria?

Answer 2

Model has to be able to show intelligent behavoir appropriate to the task

Question 3

What is the Behavioral criteria?

Answer 3

Model has to perform the task in the same way as humans

Question 4

What is the Neurophysiological criteria?

Answer 4

Model has to be faithful to what happens in the brain

Question 5

What does cognitive control do?

Answer 5

Cognitive control, controls and manages cognitive processes.

Question 6

What are two ways of modelling cognitive control?

Answer 6

Maximal control (Top-down)
Minimal control (Bottom-up)

Question 7

What does maximal control do?

Answer 7

Fully controls every aspect
Lots of bookkeeping
easily stuck in suboptimal sequence

Question 8

What is better to use than maximal control?

Answer 8

Minimal control principle

Question 9

What does minimal control do?

Answer 9

Deciding what next step is based on observations of the environment

Question 10

What is an example of minimal control being better than maximal control?

Answer 10

People learn better with context instructions (minimal control) than with list instructions (maximal control)

Question 11

Why should we go to the neural level?

Answer 11

Explain cognitive system based on firing of simple neurons
Explain higher-level phenomena based on lower-level biological constraints