Exploring Coherent Approaches to Studying Human Behavior
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What are newborns equipped with?

  • Memories
  • Computers
  • Pictures
  • Reflexes (correct)

    • What are some design elements that newborns are not born with?

  • Software, knowledge, and lexicons
  • Information, data, and rules
  • Memories, images, and processors (correct)
  • Representations, algorithms, and programs

    • What do computers do with information?

  • Computers develop learning mechanisms
  • Computers create representations of visual stimuli
  • Computers process information using senses and reflexes
  • Computers store and retrieve information (correct)

    • Which physicist compared the brain to a telegraph?

    <p>Hermann von Helmholtz</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What metaphor dominates human thinking about intelligent human behavior?

    <p>The information processing metaphor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is the IP metaphor considered 'sticky' according to the text?

    <p>It encumbers our thinking with powerful ideas</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did the European Union fund the Human Brain Project with virtually no restrictions?

    <p>They were convinced it would revolutionize the treatment of Alzheimer's disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the current state of understanding the brain's neuronal connectivity?

    <p>It will take centuries to figure out basic neuronal connectivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it not possible to locate a representation of a dollar bill stored inside the human brain?

    <p>Because memories are not stored in individual neurons</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the example of Jinny drawing a dollar bill without the bill present suggest?

    <p>Visualising something is less accurate than seeing something in its presence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between the IP perspective and the 'anti-representational' view of human functioning?

    <p>The IP perspective involves computations and representations, while the 'anti-representational' view does not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which view of human functioning does Anthony Chemero of the University of Cincinnati reject?

    <p>The view that the human brain works like a computer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it challenging for neuroscientists to understand human functioning?

    <p>The difficulty of simulating the brain's state</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main reason the brain's changes and patterns are unique to each individual?

    <p>The uniqueness of each individual's experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The human brain contains copies of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: Newborns are equipped with reflexes that are important for their survival.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Newborns are born with information, data, rules, software, knowledge, lexicons, representations, algorithms, programs, models, memories, images, processors, subroutines, encoders, decoders, symbols, or buffers.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Humans have physical memories, just like computers.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Computers operate on symbolic representations of the world, while humans do not.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The invention of hydraulic engineering in the 3rd century BCE led to the popularity of a hydraulic model of human intelligence.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The IP metaphor is based on a faulty syllogism.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: Visualizing something is more accurate than seeing it in person.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The mathematician John von Neumann compared the human brain to a telegraph.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: Recognizing something requires reliving the perceptual experience.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The Human Brain Project launched by the European Union aimed to create a simulation of the entire human brain on a supercomputer by 2023.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The IP metaphor has produced numerous insights and has been widely accepted in the field of neuroscience.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The uniqueness problem suggests that no two individuals will have the same changes in their brain after experiencing the same event.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The brain's 86 billion neurons can be simulated in a computer, but the pattern of their activity would be meaningless outside the brain.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: The mainstream view is that humans and computers make sense of the world by performing computations on mental representations.

    <p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

    True or false: According to McBeath and his colleagues, catching a fly ball requires the player to continuously analyze an internal model of the ball's trajectory.

    <p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

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