The Art of Cognition

Which concept is important for understanding art from a cognitive perspective?

What is the definition of culture according to Sayre?

When does human culture emerge?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four media through which culture exists?

What is the function of art according to the text?

Which type of culture is associated with the use of graphics?

What is the role of perception in the cognitive process of dealing with change?

True or false: Memory is not a significant concept for understanding art from a cognitive perspective.

True or false: Memories are solely individual and do not have a collective dimension.

True or false: According to Sayre, culture encompasses values, beliefs, and behavior that are passed down from one generation to the next.

True or false: Collective memories are memories that are not shared by society?

True or false: Culture is confined only to the arts?

True or false: Dialectic is a process that has only one side, either memory or actuality?

True or false: Accommodation is the process of adjusting our thinking to reality?

True or false: Memory is the material of culture.

True or false: Individual culture implies a collective dimension.

True or false: Culture can be an instrument for change.

True or false: Human culture emerges when memory and perception entirely coincide.

True or false: Culture has nothing to do with the ways in which people deal with the difference between memory and perception.

True or false: Dialectic is a process that has two sides, memory and actuality.

True or false: Memories are solely individual and do not have a collective dimension.

True or false: According to Sayre, culture encompasses values, beliefs, and behavior that are passed down from one generation to the next.

True or false: Collective memories are memories that are shared by society.

True or false: Accommodation is the process of adjusting our thinking to reality.

True or false: Culture is a continuous, dialectic process of adaptation through accommodation and assimilation.

True or false: Assimilation has to do with adapting the environment to our way of thinking.

True or false: Thinking is the recycling of memories.

True or false: Perception of similarities has to do with the body and the senses.

True or false: Conceptualization of meaning has to do with language.

True or false: Analysis of structures involves using graphic symbols.

True or false: Abstract memories are not connected to a particular moment in time.

True or false: Imagination is assimilative because we create something to make sense of the world.

True or false: Art only exists in the perceiver.

True or false: The arts change because reality changes.