Lecture 24

Question 1

a model trained on the blue corpus would calculate what

Answer 1

a higher information content value -> less predictability

Question 1

a model trained on the red corpus would calculate what

Answer 1

a lower information content value -> more predictability

Question 2

what does a multiple viewpoint framework do

Answer 2

it can combine predictions made by mutiple models -> uses different statistical parameters

Question 3

true or false - static rule based models produce better predictors of responses than a multiple viewpoint framework

Answer 3

false - vice versa

Question 4

what are the two disadvantages of rule based models

Answer 4

1. uses simpler definitional approaches
2. cannot be flexibly updates based on experience

Question 5

what are within culture predictions

Answer 5

calculates how likely each event is in every composition within the corpus

Question 6

what are between culture predictions

Answer 6

models are applied after having created a set of within culture predictions

Question 7

what does comparative cognition involve

Answer 7

compares how certain processes work across different animals

Question 8

why do researchers study comparative cognition (from example)

Answer 8

figuring out how the brain of a songbird represents and produces music can help understand how the same is done in the human brain

Question 9

________ demonstrate complex forms of perceptual learning that require complex sensorimotor coordination

Answer 9

songbirds

Question 10

what are the three things that could shape singing behavior

Answer 10

experience, critical windows and cultural components

Question 11

what occurs when birds are raised in an environment absent from normal acoustic stimuli

Answer 11

they learn abnormal isolate songs that deviate from the sings of members of the same species

Question 12

define conspecific

Answer 12

members of the same species