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  • How does implicit reasoning about the supernatural relate to stated beliefs?
  • Learning at which level involves shared cultural knowledge that individuals may not be consciously aware of?
  • To replicate Watson's Jeopardy performance, what capabilities would a program need?
  • Working Memory is best described as which function?
  • Which scenario illustrates observational learning?
  • Gambler's Fallacy can be illustrated by which statement about independent coin flips?
  • Which concept describes tailoring instruction to a learner's needs by adjusting the amount of help?
  • Under 'people' in core knowledge theory, what developmental milestone is described?
  • Which term describes the study of sound systems among languages, including phonemes and phonology?
  • According to core knowledge theory relating to objects, at about 4.5 months infants have which understanding?
  • How is a number represented in the visual system according to the example?
  • In Anterograde amnesia, which memory type can be learned?
  • Who proposed the Threat Simulation Theory (TST)?
  • Do we know where long-term memories are stored?
  • What are phonemes?
  • Which memory is described as probably stored here forever, but retrieval may be problematic?
  • The second ritual in this pattern marks the change in acceptance that the person is gone, existing only in memory.
  • What methods does Education use?
  • According to core knowledge theory relating to living things, which cue is used to distinguish living from nonliving objects?
  • Which capability emerges in the formal operational stage?
  • Which characteristic is associated with the preoperational stage (2-6)?
  • Which neurotransmitter is linked to reward and is changed during listening to music?
  • As science works, which statements about theories and hypotheses are correct?
  • Which of the following is listed as a use of imaginary companions?
  • The emotional impact of counterfactual thinking depends on whether you feel part of the imagined situation or contrast your life with it.
  • Which statement best describes automatization in skill performance?
  • What happens to the forgetting curve as you re-study material?
  • What is the relationship between memory and imagination as described?
  • What does psycholinguistics study?
  • Which field is described as a big player in cognitive science?
  • Which concept is listed as part of cognitive anthropology's subject matter?
  • Which subfield studies how sounds are organized and used in language?
  • Should you use peers to set your own study norms, according to the material?
  • What is the purpose of visual analytics as described?
  • If a representation is stored in memory, what cognitive process uses it to perform tasks?
  • Which statement best captures the described links between music and cognitive science?
  • According to the notes, is it possible to be conscious in the sense of conscious of something or conscious of self while not being awake?
  • Imagining fighting the bystander effect has been shown to do what?
  • What are the two main alternatives proposed for the origin of music?
  • Imprinting occurs within a narrow time window after birth or hatching; for example, geese learn who their mother is within
  • What are considered secondary fields?
  • In preoperative stress, what two conditions were compared?
  • Which symptoms characterize obsessive compulsive disorder as described?
  • Which statement describes sensitization?
  • Why are statistics necessary when interpreting numerical data in research, according to the material?
  • What is syntax parsing?
  • Intromission theory states that rays are reflected off objects into the eyes.
  • What progress fronts are seen during the sensorimotor stage?
  • Which concept defines the difference between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help?
  • The finch beak story is associated with which location?
  • What proportion of species ever gets fossilized?
  • How does neural network perception differ from the pandemonium model?
  • Which term is another name for the Moral Credential Effect?
  • Vygotsky emphasized cognitive development is shaped by which context?
  • Which methods are typical in psychology?
  • In Vygotsky's theory, what describes the difference between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help?
  • Which statement best describes music in human societies?
  • What percentage of children under 7 reportedly have imaginary companions?
  • What is the general flow of a cognitive system across domains?
  • Historically core fields of cognitive science include which four disciplines?
  • Which hypothesis posits that music and dance evolved from coordinated territorial defence signals?
  • Which statement about the ventral stream is accurate?
  • What is Cyc in the context of AI?
  • Olfaction relies on chemoreceptors in the nose to detect chemicals. Which sense is this?
  • Which statement best describes how solid objects feel, given the atomic structure described?
  • Which statement about IQ tests and bias is supported by the material?
  • Dennett's Multiple Drafts Model asserts that there is no single moment at which something becomes conscious; rather,...
  • What is described as the contemporary core field?
  • Which two terms complete the statement: '____ and ____ are how you know where your body parts are and how they are moving'?
  • Why is sleep necessary for learning?
  • What are the three types of language described?
  • Which depth cue relates to how sharply an image is focused, affecting depth perception?
  • In dream content, how do negative emotions compare to positive ones?
  • Greene's dual-process model posits two systems for moral judgments. The two are a rational utilitarian calculus and which other system?
  • Which statement about walking before studying is supported by the material?
  • Which statement about mating success and music is supported by the evidence?
  • Which nutrients were historically important and often scarce in our evolutionary past?
  • Genetic learning occurs when environments change very slowly. Under which environmental condition does genetic learning occur?
  • Which of the following is not a depth cue according to SPOTFM?
  • Phantom words illustrate that perception is influenced by:
  • Which statement best describes the subject matter and methods of philosophy as given?
  • Which discrepancy is used to define a learning disability?
  • The u-shaped curve in language development is explained by which cognitive process?
  • Which is a common characteristic of dreams?
  • In the 1890s, which two developments are noted in psychology?
  • Which disorder features a deficit of awareness of one side of space despite intact sensory input?
  • A construction worker using a blueprint to construct a house is described as a distributed cognitive system?
  • What is habituation?
  • What are two problems with inferring early human behavior from fossils?
  • Are psychic powers real according to the material?
  • How much DNA do humans share with mice?
  • What is a common criticism raised by Kurzweil's critics regarding nanobot advancement?
  • What is intersubjectivity in Vygotsky's theory?
  • Which statement best defines learning?
  • Which factor is more strongly associated with anxiety, depression, and related disorders according to the material?
  • Which statement best describes the evolutionary view of the mind?
  • Music is described as a precursor to the evolution of which cognitive system?
  • Imagining performing sports is said to have what effect on actual sports performance?
  • A student using a map to navigate to class is described as part of a distributed cognitive system?
  • Which example is cited as a pattern seen in random processes, illustrating pattern detection in the material?
  • Which dimension describes whether a hallucination is voluntary or involuntary?
  • In the discussion of personal identity, which statement reflects the material's view?
  • According to the material, solid objects are primarily composed of what?
  • What was cybernetics primarily about in its early form?
  • Outcome bias is the tendency to judge the quality of a decision primarily by its outcome rather than by the information available at the time the decision was made.
  • Which statement is true about evolutionary psychology?
  • Which brain region associated with executive function is deactivated during dreams?
  • Which field studies how words are formed from smaller units?
  • What is the singularity as described?
  • What weekly study time is recommended by the material?
  • Charles Bonnet Syndrome is characterized by which type of hallucination?
  • Cognitive scientists describe the workings of a mind at a level so detailed that a computer could execute the task in the same way.
  • Interoception refers to the perception of what?
  • Seeing shoes in a house is an example of which cognitive concept?
  • Which statement reflects the existence of useless traits?
  • Which of the following is a critique of philosophy?
  • Processing Speed refers to which ability?
  • According to Watson's behaviorism, psychology should study:
  • What application is suggested by findings on foreign accent in singing?
  • Describe animal communication (Zoosemiotics) modalities.
  • Which critique of education research is mentioned in the material?
  • What is the relationship between memory difficulty and future imagination?
  • In schizophrenia, what is observed regarding auditory hallucinations?
  • Which statement reflects core knowledge theories?
  • Neuroscience overlaps with which fields?
  • Which statement best describes the view of science as an epistemology compared to religion, as presented?
  • What is the final stage of the expanding circle?
  • Which concept describes the practice of publishing results to allow others to disprove them, thereby contributing to the self-correcting nature of science?
  • Which researchers are linked to highlighting flaws in the homo economicus assumption?
  • Which concept explains repurposing brain areas for new uses?
  • In planning to achieve a goal, what should you imagine?
  • Which memorization timing is suggested in relation to sleep?
  • Which is NOT a mode of transmitted change?
  • Which photoreceptors are responsible for color vision and high acuity in bright light?
  • Which physical trait length has been found to correlate with marital success?
  • The peppered moth evolution demonstrates color change in response to environmental soot. What is the key pattern observed?
  • Illusions give _______ about how our perceptual systems work.
  • Why do we need the cognitive level in addition to the psychological level?
  • In the looking paradigm used to study infants, researchers habituate the infant to a stimulus and then present a new event to see if the infant notices. What does a longer looking time after the change indicate?
  • The material describes our sense of self as similar to which idea?
  • Cognitive systems transform environmental information into internal representations via perception. Which statement is accurate?
  • The Loebner competition is primarily about what?
  • Besides memory encoding, what is another cognitive benefit of sleep mentioned?
  • How is language a brain interface?
  • According to the material, all problems are intellectual because solving them requires what?
  • At approximately what annual income does money stop increasing happiness?
  • Do people typically remember most of their dreams?
  • Which statement best describes haptics?
  • Which of the following is NOT one of the five core disciplines of linguistics as described?
  • Why do we need the biological level in addition to the cognitive level?
  • Which statement about animacy recognition is supported by core knowledge theory?
  • Which example illustrates universal grammar concepts?
  • Semantics studies which aspect of language?
  • What does reinforcement mean?
  • Describe the function of animal communication.
  • Which threats are overrepresented in dreams according to TST support?
  • Which statement accurately summarizes song perception?
  • Which statement reflects a rule for affix usage mentioned in the material?
  • According to the material, which statement describes left-wing moral foundations?
  • What archaeological evidence is cited for early music?
  • Which example illustrates a 'one-violation' concept in Pascal Boyer's theory that people often find plausible?
  • In Parkinson's disease, listening to pleasant music is associated with what?
  • Proprioceptive receptors are primarily located where?
  • What does the hunting theory propose as a factor in brain development?
  • Which option is NOT listed as one of the five physical signals and their perceptual modalities?
  • Availability heuristic is influenced by:
  • What is identified as the optimal duration for mental practice?
  • What is the proposed effect of music as an external rhythmic framework?
  • In Piaget's preoperational stage, children typically fail to conserve because of which concept?
  • Why do students who take notes by hand tend to remember more than those who type on computers?
  • Under core knowledge theory, Naive psychology is associated with which domain?
  • Which statement best describes how hallucinations in epilepsy relate to seizure focus?
  • Transient Global Amnesia primarily impairs formation of which memory type?
  • Cones come in how many types and what wavelengths do they correspond to?
  • Describe Learning at the Chemical Level.
  • Which program is noted for generating art?
  • Which description accurately describes cognitive psychology?
  • Which bias causes people to pay more attention to negative information?
  • What does the material say about flashcards for memorization?
  • The conjunction fallacy occurs when someone:
  • Music engages cognitive processes such as which?
  • Which phenomenon occurs when two items are evaluated together and their differences seem amplified?
  • Dreaming can occur during which sleep states?
  • Which theory explains how religion can promote prosocial behavior by leveraging beliefs in supernatural agents to constrain behavior when no one is watching?
  • Which concept states that once you own something, you value it more and demand more to give it up?
  • According to TST support, animal dreams are most frequent in which group?
  • Which brain network is commonly active for both memory and imagination?
  • Which statement explains why learning styles are considered a bad model?
  • Solipsism is defined as which view?
  • Most dreams are described from which perspective?
  • In animal communication, what roles does smell serve?
  • During critical stage, approximately how often are new words learned while awake?
  • What is the non-family environmental contribution to religiosity?
  • Which idea is associated with the Dawkins TED talk as described in the material?
  • Which statement best describes the relationship between environment items and distributed cognitive systems in these examples?
  • Evolution occurs when these three things exist:
  • What is the general claim about evolved and well-learned behaviors compared to deliberate ones?
  • The nucleus of an atom is described as which analogy?
  • The concept of 'middle world' suggests our perception is calibrated to which range?
  • What is metacognition?
  • The metaphor for cognitive science is not that the mind is a computer, but a
  • How do women's facial preferences shift with ovulation?
  • Why do we perceive objects as solid, despite atoms being mostly empty space?
  • Which of the following illustrates habituation?
  • Who is associated with the 1821 Difference Engine?
  • Who opened the first psychology laboratory in 1875?
  • In temporal induction of speech, which condition makes it hard to identify which phoneme was deleted?
  • What is another benefit of using half-hour blocks for study?
  • In play and phobias, what is overrepresented?
  • A picture is a ________ of a real thing.
  • Why do we need the chemical level in addition to the physical level?
  • According to the material, imagination is best described as
  • Which form of operant conditioning is described as the strongest?
  • How often do people, on average, think about the future?
  • Migraine aura progression often follows which pattern?
  • What is stated about studying in many places?
  • During the concrete operational stage, children develop mental operations and can reason logically about which domain?
  • During the critical stage, how many new words are produced per day in productive vocabulary?
  • Which concept is described by the phrase 'Neurons That Fire Together, Wire Together'?
  • What scheduling approach is recommended to reduce stress and improve progress?
  • Which approach relies on matching sensory input to a stored template?
  • Which category of crimes was mentioned as purity-related in relation to disgust and policing?
  • What does TOTE stand for in Miller, Galanter, Pribram's framework?
  • Which scenario demonstrates negative punishment?
  • What is the tragedy of the commons as described in the material?
  • What does discussion of inner language imply about its relation to spoken language?
  • Qualia refer to...
  • Which statement best describes practice?
  • What is false memory?
  • Can people multitask?
  • What is the key difference between how animals and humans learn language?
  • Which statement describes a limitation of Piagetian theory regarding variability?
  • Which trait is listed as a neotenous feature in humans?
  • Why is writing considered important?
  • Which statement about imagining polygons is supported?
  • How do robotics cognitive systems work?
  • Which brain region is responsible for muscle atonia during REM sleep?
  • Which concept is associated with Piaget's view of children's development?
  • In HCI, which aspect concerns how easy it is to learn to use the software?
  • Disgust sensitivity is associated with harsher judgments of which category of moral infractions?
  • What waist-to-hip ratio do men tend to prefer, according to the material?
  • What does cognitive science propose about problem solving?
  • What happened to cybernetics according to the notes?
  • Which sleep disorder involves acting out dreams due to loss of REM atonia?
  • Which of the following is cited as a core knowledge domain in these theories?
  • Which domains are proposed by core knowledge theories as early-acquired knowledge?
  • Why do we need the sociological level?
  • What effect do AI's chess moves have according to the material?
  • Which option describes positive reinforcement?
  • The scientific evidence that people have different learning styles is:
  • Which statement is NOT supported by the material?
  • Which feature is typical of REM sleep?
  • In echolocation, how does it work?
  • PM case memory implies what dissociation?
  • Which meaning of consciousness refers to being aware of something, such as an oncoming car?
  • What milestone occurred around 1955 in AI history?
  • What animal observations support the coalition signaling hypothesis?
  • Which memory stores events that have happened to you?
  • How do future imaginings compare in detail to present experiences?
  • Which of the following is NOT listed as a kind of sensory imagination?
  • Which statement correctly defines negative reinforcement?
  • According to anthropologist Pascal Boyer, which sequence is a common pattern in dual funerals?
  • Which term refers to self-directed comments not directed to others but intended to guide one's own behavior?
  • Extramission theory states that rays are emitted from the eye toward objects.
  • In the prisoner's dilemma game played quickly, participants are more likely to:
  • How is the global distribution of cognitive science departments described?
  • In infant looking studies, which method is primarily used to assess perception?
  • Which option defines positive punishment?
  • Belief bias occurs when:
  • Which statement best characterizes how much of brain activity is accessible to consciousness?
  • Morphology studies how modifications on words affect meaning?
  • Which best describes the subject matter of computer science?
  • Why does time dilation seem weird according to the material?
  • What is stated about happiness changes for lottery winners and people who become paraplegic?
  • Around 1975, which domains were highlighted as growing in AI and cognitive science?
  • Universal grammar theory proposes what about the mind and language?
  • What percentage of babies are estimated to come from extra-pair copulations?
  • In marshmallow self-control studies, which factor predicted better long-term outcomes?
  • Which of the following is NOT an interoceptive signal?
  • In the concept of Person Permanence, what belief persists after someone is no longer perceived?
  • In EEG studies comparing language and music, how do syntactic violations in language compare to chords in music in the P600 range?
  • In terms of time perception, what does the material say about our understanding of day and seasonal cycles?
  • In software, representations are stored as which of the following?
  • The notes describe imaginary companions as being harmless because they are often helpful.
  • Which of the following is a correct pairing of a physical signal with its perceptual modality?
  • Which bias posits that harm from an action is judged worse than harm from inaction with the same outcome?
  • Which life events are said to affect happiness more than lottery winnings or becoming paraplegic?
  • Which statement best describes the relationship between habituation and sensitization?
  • Music is described as having cross-cultural ability.
  • Which statement best captures the cognitive level's focus?
  • Which recurring dream has notable frequency?
  • Who is associated with simulated evolution?
  • Which statement describes the formal operational stage?
  • Which scenario illustrates classical conditioning in the examples provided?
  • At what stage do individuals begin to apply mental operations to abstract entities?
  • Which statement best describes cognitive science methodology?
  • Which concept is presented as a reason some critics say Artificial Intelligence is a failure?
  • Which domain is listed as an area where humans are still better than AI?
  • Which effect leads people to perceive media coverage as biased against their political views?
  • The planning fallacy leads to which of the following descriptions?
  • In this framework, what does the term 'Friendship' primarily refer to?
  • Why do we need the cognitive level in addition to the biological level?
  • In traditional societies, schizotypal and epileptic individuals are often perceived as blessed and can set the religious tone; which of the following conditions correlate with religiosity?
  • Which components contribute to the overall flavor experience?
  • Which brain imaging technologies were prominent in the 1980s?
  • Do animals have language?
  • Which sequence correctly lists Piaget's stages in the order described in the material?
  • Intuition can be described as...
  • From the information processing perspective, which is NOT listed as an improvement in children?
  • According to the material, does music ability predict mating success?
  • What are the four categories of operant conditioning?
  • Higher-order thought theories claim consciousness arises when...
  • Which best describes the McGurk effect?
  • Which of the following is not listed as an example of cognitive weakness?
  • During the classical period of behavioural economics, economics was allied with which field?
  • In the construction scenario, which element is described as environment rather than part of the distributed system?
  • Which of the following is listed as a cross-cultural function of music?
  • The old brain and the New: which statement best describes the old brain's role as presented?
  • What characterizes the u-shaped grammar curve in language development?
  • The implicit structure of human language is characterized by knowledge that is
  • Functionalism posits that mental states are determined by
  • Which statement best captures Pinker’s Vision theory?
  • What does the material say about social perception?
  • Which of the following is listed as a way AI is better than humans?
  • Which subject matter is included in cognitive anthropology's focus?
  • Which scenario demonstrates negative reinforcement?
  • Hallucinogenic experiences are often described as
  • How is a cognitive bias best defined?
  • Which critique is made about controlled studies in education research?
  • Which metrics were used to assess mating success in the studies?
  • Is there strong evidence that people have fixed learning styles?
  • Which language type is described as typically lacking ambiguity?
  • Which researcher conducted early experiments in memory?
  • What does the hand/walking theory emphasize?
  • During imagination, which brain region shows increased activation?
  • What statement about prosody and foreign accent perception is supported?
  • What defines natural language?
  • Which two modalities are identified as the types of active perception?
  • What does Dunbar’s group-living theory propose as the main driver of increased intelligence?
  • What trend is noted about cognitive science conferences?
  • Which statement about Inside Out notes is true regarding reason?
  • What does the evidence suggest about the relationship between musical memory and semantic memory?
  • When the stimulus was repeated in the speech-to-song study, what did participants do?
  • Which field focuses on how context influences interpretation and use of language?
  • What capability is typical of the concrete operational stage (7-11)?
  • The first ritual in the dual funeral pattern involves removing the body from the living space, even while the person is believed to still exist.
  • Learning at the Sociological Level is described as which statement?
  • Our knowledge of how to speak is
  • Primacy and Recency Effects describe:
  • How do software memory and computer memory differ?
  • In infant looking studies, what indicates that a baby has noticed a change after habituation?
  • Why do we need the biological level in addition to the chemical level?
  • Split-brain observations suggest what about consciousness across hemispheres?
  • Which pricing tactic is a classic example of anchoring?
  • Individual learning occurs when which condition applies?
  • Passively listening to music engages which neural system?
  • How do hallucinations typically differ from imagination?
  • In the sensorimotor stage, progress is seen on three fronts. Which combination best describes these fronts?
  • Which is a commonly cited critique of Piagetian theory?
  • The hippocampus is important for which function?
  • Which concept is illustrated by punishing a drunk driver more severely when death occurs than a drunk driver who gets lucky and kills no one?
  • Why might some adaptations no longer be beneficial in modern environments?
  • Which trends characterized AI in the 1980s?
  • Which cognitive biases are cited as contributing to belief in paranormal phenomena?
  • Which statement describes the functional description of language?
  • How is a level deemed legitimate in the cognitive science framework described?
  • What does 'Tribalism' describe in the expanding circle framework?
  • Moral dumbfounding is illustrated by which scenario?
  • In what year did John Watson publish his manifesto for behaviorism?
  • What is the first law of robotics as stated by Asimov?
  • In the pre-history of cognitive science, who dominated explanations about the mind until around 1800?
  • Which statement reflects findings about chimpanzee morality?
  • Approximately what proportion of happiness is genetic according to the material?
  • Core knowledge theories propose knowledge is organized into which structure?
  • What does the claim that animals require hundreds of trials illustrate?
  • What predicts the kinds of hallucinations you will have in the visual system?
  • In cognitive science, what does the information processing level emphasize?
  • What methods characterize cognitive anthropology?
  • Which experiment is associated with early behaviorist ideas?
  • Much of what we experience as taste is actually which sense?
  • Base rate neglect is best described as:
  • In syntax, what does an asterisk next to a phrase indicate?
  • Cultural learning (imitation) is most associated with which rate of environmental change?
  • What is one reason for needing the psychological level in addition to the cognitive level?
  • What does universal grammar theory propose?
  • Sleepwalking is typically associated with which sleep stage?
  • Which pair of sub-disciplines are described under computer science?
  • Which statement about babies and automatization is implied by the material?
  • Kurzweil predicts computer programs will be smarter than humans by approximately which year?
  • What is mitochondrial Eve?
  • Dream recall has been shown to correlate with which cognitive ability?
  • Conformist bias is defined as imitates the most common way of doing things.
  • Which statement best describes how environment relates to cognitive representations?
  • Which subfield studies meaning in language?
  • Conjunction fallacy is demonstrated when someone:
  • Which set lists the five basic tastes?
  • The marshmallow test findings are best described as reflecting which concept?
  • Which statement best illustrates syntax?
  • Which Haidt foundation is most closely associated with respect for tradition and social hierarchy?
  • Which of the following is an example of a cognitive weakness?
  • How can long-term memories be retrieved, according to the material?
  • Which bias is NOT listed as a bias associated with cultural learning?
  • What is the focus of Comparative Psychology?
  • Which type of memory is commonly described as muscle memory?
  • Procedural memory is associated with which brain regions?
  • Learning at the Cognitive Level is described by which statement?
  • How does a disembodied software cognitive system work?
  • Wishful thinking is best described by which statement?
  • AI rights include which categories?
  • Representations are stored in which part of cognition?
  • Which two theories describe how vision works by describing rays either emitted from the eye or reflected into the eye?
  • Which statement about objects is not supported by the object knowledge notes?
  • Which concept is associated with the 1940s-1950s as a measure of machine intelligence?
  • Which event marked a setback for neural network theory in the late 1950s?
  • Which topic is explicitly listed as a component of 'living things' in core knowledge theory?
  • Which statement best supports the language of thought view about inner language?
  • Base rate neglect occurs when people:
  • Which of the following would be considered an atypical sense?
  • Functionalism holds that mental states are determined by what they do, rather than by their physical makeup.
  • Which bias describes adopting beliefs because everyone around you believes them?
  • Which figure is associated with the year 1930 in early cognitive development notes?
  • In philosophy, a 'philosophical zombie' is defined as a being that behaves like a human but lacks conscious experience.
  • How do quasi-experiments differ from experiments in political science research?
  • Which institution is noted as having the only cognitive science department in Canada?
  • Which statement illustrates a cultural feedback loop affecting human evolution?
  • What method is described as scientifically best for recording dreams?
  • In mate selection, what is predicted about male and female preferences?
  • If language is an instinct as Chomsky suggests, what does that imply about its evolution?
  • In the memory aid, what does 'positive' refer to?
  • What is known about Australopithecines and tool use?
  • Which description best captures sensory memory duration?
  • What is the reported correlation between childhood abuse and psychological disorders?
  • Which characteristic describes Piaget's preoperational stage (ages 2-6)?
  • What percentage of sleep is NREM?
  • What is the functional description of language?
  • Which of the following is NOT listed as a philosophy subfield?
  • Which bias explains that exposure to many beautiful images can shift judgments of attractiveness in subsequent assessments?
  • The two types of implicit memory are which?
  • Which is NOT typically listed as an information-processing improvement in childhood?
  • What evolutionary consequence is linked to upright posture and altriciality?
  • Why is the term 'singularity' used to describe this hypothetical event?
  • Music can be described as which of the following?
  • The u-shaped grammar curve in language development describes which pattern?
  • One common critique of artificial intelligence is that it is insufficiently concerned with natural intelligence.
  • During sleep paralysis, which phenomenon is commonly experienced?
  • Describe Learning at the Biological Level.
  • Which list correctly names the five subfields of linguistics?
  • What is the anchor in the anchoring bias?
  • Which are forms of selection in biology?
  • In the described scenario, is watching television by a single child considered a distributed cognitive system?
  • Which critique highlights psychology's methodological limitations due to not embracing methods from other disciplines?
  • Is attributing mental states to the dead learned or innate, according to the material?
  • What is the correct order of Piaget's stages from birth onward?
  • Cultures are subject to what selective process as well?
  • From a cognitive science perspective, perception means turning information from one form into new, meaningful representations. Which option best reflects this claim?
  • What is the second law of Asimov's robotics as listed?
  • What is evidence that long-term memories are not pictures?
  • Why do we need the chemical level in addition to the biological level?
  • How does pleasant music affect serotonin levels?
  • According to TST, what is a major function of dreaming?
  • Which mechanism is used to localize sound in humans?
  • In universal grammar terms, which language feature differs between Spanish and English?
  • People create or call upon religious ideas when they encounter something out of the ordinary.
  • Which contribution is associated with Piaget?
  • Which concept is listed as a key component of Inside Out?
  • What is observational learning?
  • Inferring that someone is home from seeing shoes involves which cognitive process?
  • What does psychophysics study?
  • Which bias involves seeking out and interpreting information to support one's preconceptions?
  • Availability heuristic is best described as?
  • What does it suggest about consciousness if AI can perform many tasks without conscious experience?
  • The absence of dream imagery (visual anonoria) tends to be associated with a waking deficit in what?
  • In Moral Politics, what are the two metaphors used to describe political ideologies?
  • The idea that consciousness is only a small part of the mind available to reflect on is best described by which metaphor?
  • What is the general role of AI programs in relation to human work, according to the material?
  • Which of the following is NOT listed as a symptom of sleep paralysis?
  • Animals play appropriately for what they need to learn to do.
  • A common critique of research in language is that researchers build models of language and then…
  • Which concept explains that safety devices can unintentionally lead to riskier behavior?
  • What is the term for deliberately focusing on a specific concern before sleep to influence dream content?
  • What does the material say about brain redundancy?
  • Within core knowledge theory relating to people, what does Naive psychology suggest about disagreements?
  • Which description corresponds to the structural description of language?
  • Downward counterfactuals typically have what effect on mood?
  • Using the eating example, which statement reflects a proximate explanation for why we eat?
  • How is sine-wave speech generated?
  • Long time scales such as those of trees, stars, and glass are described as appearing immobile due to which reason?
  • Dopamine experiments described involve giving skeptics L-DOPA to assess effects on which cognitive tendency?
  • Cognitive scientists accept the idea of an activation level when it helps predict behavior and when there is a biological basis.
  • What is the age range for the oldest fossils of fully formed humans?
  • Which statement accurately reflects the described relationship between political orientation and moral foundations?
  • What is stated about aphantasics?
  • Which statement best captures the concept that we are evolved to understand the world in certain ways?
  • The suffix 'ant' can only be used with words of which origin?
  • What is the critical stage for learning language?
  • Which of the following is NOT listed as a sub-field of psychology?
  • Which option defines negative punishment?
  • What is a reason why poisoning can cause dizziness and vomiting related to the vestibular system?
  • Which condition is listed as a possible reason for imaginary companions?
  • What belief leads to blaming victims for inexplicable injustices?
  • Which statement about brain usage is supported by the material?
  • In robotics cognitive systems, what are the roles of sensors and actuators?
  • What was the primary purpose of some of the earliest AI programs described in the material?
  • What does George Lakoff's theory propose about how people think about abstract concepts?
  • Chomsky's 1957 critique helped birth cognitivism by introducing which concepts?
  • During the critical stage (ages 3-5), how many new words per day do children typically add to their productive vocabulary?
  • An imaginary companion is described as what?
  • Imagining eating a particular food has what effect on actual consumption?
  • Around 1990, AI trends included which major shift?
  • In the pandemonium model of perception, how is perception produced?
  • Cognition is the manipulation of which kind of element?
  • Which phenomenon demonstrates the ability to respond to stimuli without conscious perception?
  • Kinesthesia refers to which aspect of perception?
  • What concept describes how easily memories can be retrieved, according to cognitive science?
  • Which cells are more light sensitive and support peripheral vision?
  • What are the two types of declarative memory?
  • What is a characteristic emphasis of cognitive anthropology?
  • According to evolutionary memory theories, which type of information is most likely to be remembered?
  • We also get facts by figuring them out, but this is better described as...
  • Which occupation is noted as daydreaming when they have nothing to do?
  • Which scenario demonstrates positive punishment?
  • Which statement best describes olfaction?
  • Mental practice can increase finger strength by what percentage, according to the material?
  • Theory of mind develops around what age range according to the material?
  • What is the term for thinking of oneself as moral that licenses fewer restrictions on behavior?
  • Pareidolia refers to:
  • Which of the following are compensatory strategies?
  • Pascal Boyer's Counterontology theory posits that the mind has subsystems for understanding different things in the world. What do these subsystems collectively form?
  • Which term is used for the idea of building up good person points before allowing oneself to misbehave?
  • Which statement best captures distributed cognitive systems?
  • Which statement is true about gustation?
  • According to support for TST, Westerners dream of things we rarely experience.
  • Why do we need the psychological level?
  • Which two elements constitute the core components of cognitive systems?
  • What is the typical alpha level threshold used to determine statistical significance?
  • In HCI, which aspect asks how easy the software is to use?
  • Which description best captures the concrete operational stage (7–11)?
  • What characterizes imprinting?
  • Which statement best describes the subject matter of cognitive science?
  • Phonetics is described as focusing on which aspect?
  • What does punishment mean?
  • In OCD, failing to engage in ritual causes what experience?
  • Which example best illustrates practice?
  • Astro Boy notes assert which attitude toward AI and robots in Japan?
  • Haidt's moral foundations theory includes six domains abbreviated CLAFLS. Which of the following is not one of them?
  • Describe logic in its traditional sense.
  • Regarding bizarre dreams, which statement is supported by selection bias?
  • Which phrase describes psychology's focus in the 1990s related to brain research?
  • A common critique of Piagetian theory is that it which?
  • In Cognitive Science and Problem Solving, what does the human modeling side study?
  • Which of the following is listed as a function of music in social contexts?
  • Which memory serves as a temporary store from which some items may move to long-term memory?
  • What is the described effect of listening to Mozart on babies?
  • In Human-Computer Interaction, which aspect measures how effective the software is at its intended function?
  • What happens to light that enters the eye?
  • For disembodied software, how is perception realized?
  • Scholars are often dismissive of levels above the one they work at because they believe higher-level regularities will be deduced from lower-level regularities. This stance is an example of what?
  • Why is music of interest to cognitive science?
  • The ventral stream is primarily associated with which function?
  • What happens if you give yourself too much time for a task?
  • Which concept describes losses looming larger than gains in decision making?
  • Which approach gained prominence in the 1990s emphasizing interaction with the environment?
  • Which critique of anthropology is listed in the material?
  • Which processing stream is the 'where' pathway associated with motion and spatial location?
  • What type of thinking characterizes the formal operation stage (11-death)?
  • What is testimony (learning)?
  • Why do we have morality, in the evolutionary account presented?
  • Which term describes shared understanding among participants in an activity?
  • Schizotypalism affects about what percent of people?
  • What is the third law of robotics according to Asimov's list?
  • Dreaming of teeth falling out is explained as caused by what?
  • What was the consensus on whether music came before language?
  • What describes preferring immediate rewards over larger future rewards?
  • Which types of tools tend to last in the archaeological record?
  • The success of Watson on Jeopardy exemplifies a tradition of what kind of AI?
  • Which statement best contrasts Kurzweil's and Bill Joy's views?
  • In cognitive systems, transformations occur in the _________ via perception to internal ___________. Which pair completes the blanks?
  • In the notes, imagining putting the ball in the hole is reported to improve performance by about what percentage?
  • What is the focus of Human-Computer Interaction?
  • Where could representations be stored in an animal?
  • What is perception?
  • In an fMRI study of music perception, auditory cortex activation was observed during which condition?
  • Which memory type is described as a scratch pad that is overwritten every few seconds by new perceptions?
  • What percentage of people react appropriately to dream threats?
  • In the neo-classical period, what is the depicted view of humans in economics?
  • What does the Baldwin effect describe?
  • Learning at the Psychological Level is described by which statement?
  • In science as a culture, what does replicability refer to?
  • Which option correctly matches Piaget's developmental stages with typical age ranges?
  • What is working memory?
  • What is the subject matter of linguistics?
  • People with OCD are attracted to religions, particularly ritualistic ones such as Catholicism.
  • Is you and your calculator an example of a distributed cog system?
  • Which term describes the tendency to require more compensation to give up an object than to acquire it?
  • Which statement best reflects the idea that instincts influence moral judgments and can be manipulated by sensory cues?
  • Which term describes a trait that evolved for one purpose but is used for another?
  • Is it harder to detect foreign accent when someone is singing or speaking?
  • In Education, the subject matter focuses on how people learn and how to design education to help them learn effectively. Which option best describes this focus?
  • The two main types of long-term memory are which?
  • Which memory stores facts?
  • Do children actually believe in their imaginary companions, according to the notes?
  • What does morphology study?
  • Imagining people acting against stereotypes has what effect on prejudice?
  • Evidence suggests that people are more prosocial when primed with supernatural concepts.
  • How does the animal mind work?
  • Which brain region is associated with early visual hallucinations involving shapes, orientation, and patterns?
  • Which model of consciousness posits that conscious content is highlighted and broadcast to other cognitive processes?
  • Which subfield studies how sentences may be put together in a language?
  • One technological solution to climate change mentioned is?
  • What distinguishes linguistics from many other cognitive science subfields?
  • Approximately what percent of religiosity is attributed to genetics according to the material?
  • To have a learning disability that requires accommodation, which of the following must be true?
  • Which subfield examines how sentences interact with context to change meaning?
  • Is recursion in music considered unique to human language?
  • Where were the oldest human fossils found?
  • Which scenario best illustrates learning via testimony?
  • What determines whether something is part of the system or part of the environment?
  • Which best describes the subject matter of psychology?
  • Which brain region is very active during dreaming, sending information forward?
  • The primacy effect explains why we remember:
  • The actor-observer bias describes which pattern of attribution?
  • Which scenario best illustrates a distributed cognitive system?
  • Which statement is true about imagining the future?
  • In the same scenario, which elements are described as part of the distributed cognitive system?
  • Maladaptive daydreaming is best described as
  • What environmental factor drives finch beak evolution?
  • From the information-processing perspective, which change signals cognitive development?
  • What is stated about aphantasics?
  • Can doodling help you pay attention according to the material?
  • Which statement reflects a critique commonly aimed at neuroscience?
  • In core knowledge theory, which statement about object permanence is supported?
  • Is the physical level considered a good level of description for learning?
  • A hallucination that is projected into external space as opposed to staying in the visual field is described as what dimension?
  • Which type of content is rarely incorporated into dreams?
  • Which concept is cited as a plausible reason people act differently when the full moon is out?
  • Are project lists good?
  • What is classical conditioning?
  • The subject omission switch example contrasts which languages?
  • In a distributed cognitive system, memory can be stored in external artifacts such as which of the following?
  • In the expanding circle model, what is the sequence of moral concern?
  • What are the two kinds of happiness described?
  • In the Chinese room scenario, does the room have conscious understanding?
  • What percentage of people mindwander during daily life, according to the material?
  • Which scenario demonstrates classical conditioning?
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