Intro to Cognition

Question 1

What is the cognitive approach referred as?

Answer 1

The information-processing approach

Question 2

What does it mean by ‘hardware’ and ‘software’

Answer 2

Hardware refers to the physical system (nervous system)

Software refers to mental processes (memory, attention, perception)

Question 3

What are propositional representations and indirect realism?

Answer 3

Propositional representations - ‘token’ with semantic properties

Indirect realism - We access external reality through representations

Question 4

What is modularity?

Answer 4

Processing systems - they transform and sort information collected from the environment

Question 5

What areas did the following cognitive psychologists study?

a) Tolman
b) Cherry
c) Chomsky
d) Miller

Answer 5

a) cognitive maps
b) attention
c) language
d) memory

Question 6

How are the bottom-up and top-down approaches driven?

Answer 6

Bottom-up = data-driven
Top-down = concept driven

Question 7

What is the difference between serial processing and parallel processing?

Answer 7

Serial processing - bottleneck, sequential

Parallel processing - no bottleneck, consecutive

Question 8

What are the 4 cognitive approaches?

Answer 8

Experimental cognition
Cognitive neuropsychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Computational cognition