Quiz 4 Flashcards

Question

How does speech turn into a song?

Answer 1

"After a bunch of repetitions the speech sounds like music As you listen to something multiple times you fully understand the meaning and no longer pay attention to it You then notice other parts of it(like the beat) You pay attention to details of language you would not otherwise pay attention to"

Answer 2

"People can hear lyrics in a giant cluster of notes Your brain is only able to recognize the vocals once you know what the vocals and lyrics are If you don’t know the song you won’t hear the lyrics until you listen to it once normally"

Answer 3

"Draw our attention Hold our attention(movie) Make us desire to repeat the experience(music) Make us have positive associations with the experience(it doesn't have to be positive though) We feel they are important(news) We have a desire to understand them If they are facts or explanations we are more likely to believe them for non-rational reasons "

Answer 4

"We are interested in social status and our place in it We are compelled to believe things we particularly hope or fear are true We are attracted to patterns We are drawn to achieve goals, solve puzzles and resolve contradictions Our biological natures and psychological biases introduce a host of constraints on what we find compelling "

Answer 5

"It helped our ancestors An understanding of the social atmosphere gives someone a competitive advantage "

Answer 6

"Losing status is juicier than gaining status People changing in the social hierarchy If a teacher gains status then the hierarchy won’t change and its not juicy. If he loses status he gets closer to the students and it becomes juicy With university and high school students the story of the high school student doing well gets repeated since they get closer to the university students "

Answer 7

"Always malevolent beings Inside information Revealed the truth "

Answer 8

Conspiracy theories are always about people and their secrets

Answer 9

Tend to be about people or things affecting people

Answer 10

"Looking from high up feels good since it helped our ancestors Animals, water, high up The people who liked them survived so now we like them "

Answer 11

People who are beautiful tend to have healthier kids

Answer 12

Fail videos we look at so we don’t make the same mistake in the future

Answer 13

A lot of fear or a lot of hope work but in the middle is dull or dead

Answer 14

More likely to be spread if cautionary tales

Answer 15

"We are incredibly easy to scare(ex. Vaccines causing disease) We are suckers for hope(quark remedies) It's easier to start believing than to stop believing "

Answer 16

"When religions are proven wrong then they try to recruit more people When your point of view is threatened you get people around you to believe it to fight back "

Answer 17

Any disconfirming evidence is taken to be further evidence of a cover up

Answer 18

"We are intrinsically rewarded for finding regularity in our world Seeing how the world works helps survival "

Answer 19

participants falsely identify previously studied (old) non famous names as famous. Apparently, participants are misled by the familiar sound of old non famous names

Answer 20

people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them

Answer 21

Repetitions of a pattern you saw at higher levels in lower levers

Answer 22

Things that are easy to understand require less processing. Such things are perceived as more clear, pleasant, loud, longer, recent, less risky, attractive and truthful

Answer 23

False. Quotations are more believable if they are concise

Answer 24

"Too much pattern bores us because we understand it too well Too much incongruity bores us because we think it's incomprehensible The sweet spot is tantalizing, hinting at hidden patterns we can find Even science fiction and fantasy can’t get too weird. Most of the stories take place in areas very similar to earth"

Answer 25

True. Putting walls in a room makes people enter the room because they don’t know what's behind the wall. When you can’t see around the corner you’re more drawn in

Answer 26

We find something funny when it appears to violate our understanding but it turns out it’s okay(nothing scary or hurtful) (Benign violation)

Answer 27

"Evolved to have morality to help take care of the people in our groups but not necessarily the people outside our groups Groups that have more internal cohesion outlived the other groups so now we have morality"

Answer 28

"In general evolved and well learned behaviors work faster than deliberate ones When you force people to play a prisoner’s dilemma game quickly, they are more likely to cooperate with the other prisoner Both prisoners have an options to cooperate with their other partner and not say anything to the police or to sell out their partner for a reduced sentence When its slower and they have more time to think they sell out their partner overriding their morality"

Answer 29

individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action

Answer 30

"1) Self interest: I care about myself and my family All animals have instincts for gene-preservation(with exceptions) 2) Friendship: I care for historical cooperation partners 3) Tribalism: I care about us, but not them 4) I care about all people or creatures that can have positive experiences"

Answer 31

We didn’t evolve to handle it since switches used to not exist

Answer 32

"Our moral senses are defined on a line between two things Care / harm - Helping and hurting Liberty / oppression - Letting someone do something they want to do and oppressing them Authority / subversion - Doing something someone tells you to do and undermining authority Fairness / cheating Loyalty / betrayal - You bond with other people Sanctity / degradation - Idea that the universe has a higher level and you should not violate that(tends to be in religion)"

Answer 33

"People who disgust us we judge more harshly for purity related moral infractions Such as keeping your cubicle clean Vs not tipping a server "

Answer 34

occurs when a person makes a moral judgment in a particular situation, admits to being unable to adequately defend that judgment or decision with reasons and arguments, but still remains obstinately and steadfastly committed to that initial judgment

Answer 35

"War and torture Crime Starvation Disease Short life span Inequality "

Answer 36

"Environmental damage Social capital(peoples close relationships with one another) "

Answer 37

"The reason we can’t solve all problems is because we don’t know how to do it(the problem is the problem itself) Figuring out how to do it requires thinking and problem solving Guess what field is best suited to study thinking and problem solving Wow its cog sci "

Answer 38

"Stock trading Arithmetic and statistics Scheduling Search engines and aggregating Many games "

Answer 39

"Language Physical movement creativity(arts, science, etc.) Science Social interaction Vision Many games Most everyday tasks, etc. "

Answer 40

"Solid things are mostly empty space The nucleus of an atom is like a fly in a stadium We see them as solid because that's how we interact with them. Our hands don’t go through rocks "

Answer 41

Things we can see that are not too big, fast, slow or small. Just fast enough and big enough that we can comprehend them

Answer 42

"False. You are not your atoms Your atoms change every 7 years but we still perceive it as “you”"

Answer 43

"We understand the concept of a day and a seasonal cycle but a creature that lives for only a day would not be able to comprehend these Similarly we can't understand things that happen very slowly or very quickly Trees, stars and grass appear to all be immobile to us Time dilation due to relativity seems weird since we move slowly and it only happens in a quick speed "