Development
Surprise
Neuroscience
Design/Machine Learning
100

Select the best answer.

Hoffman (1998) argues that vision is constructed, meaning that 

  1. Children are not taught explicitly how to see

  2. Things are seen in a phenomenal sense

  3. Things are seen in a relational sense

  4. Humans see by inferring what exists in the world

Things are seen in a phenomenal sense

100

In an ERP study, monolingual English speakers and Spanish-learning English speakers saw words in English and were asked to decide whether the word is a real word or not. For the Spanish-learners, words which had cognates in Spanish (airport-aeropuerto) prompted a less negative N400 than words without cognates in Spanish. The less negative N400 for cognates indicates _____ in word retrieval.

  1. Difficulty

  2. Inhibition

  3. Facilitation

  4. Accuracy 

Facilitation

100

The right motor strip of the frontal lobe controls the ___ side of the body, and while the left occipital lobe processes information from the ___ visual field.

  1. right; right

  2. right; left

  3. left; right

  4. left; left



left; right

100

Dr. Ming’s strength of purpose construct in one of her predictive models on productivity refers to:

  1. Loyalty to the company and colleagues

  2. Perseverance in education

  3. Conscientiousness and openness to change 

  4. Dedication to a goal

Dedication to a goal

200

Select all that apply.

According to Dewar (2021), infant-directed-speech is:

  1. Repetitive

  2. Exaggerated

  3. Higher-pitch

  4. Slower

Repetitive

Exaggerated

Slower

200

Dr. Kaufhold listed the three following hypotheses regarding his study on social proximity in macaques: 

  1. Macaques would purposely position themselves farther from conspecifics when entering circle

  2. Macaque rank influences the entry distance from conspecifics

  3. Lower-ranking macaques take more circuitous routes

His results supported which of the following hypotheses?

  1. 1. and 2.

  2. 2. and 3.

  3. 1. and 3. 

  4. 1., 2., and 3.

1., 2., and 3.

200

Which of the following behaviors/functions is NOT generally a part of the frontal lobe:

  1. Intentional movements

  2. Automatic/ reflexive movements

  3. Production of language

  4. Decision-making

Automatic/ reflexive movements

200

Select all that apply.

Dr. Dow discussed that designers incorporate several frameworks for interacting with communities they serve. Which of the following are frameworks for understanding community?

  1. Community as a resource

  2. Community as an ecology

  3. Community as a building

  4. Community as an organism

Community as a resource

Community as an organism

300

Protracted immaturity refers to:

  1. The tendency of infants to produce scale errors from 12-24 months

  2. The relative physical helplessness of human infants as they learn social skills

  3. The interest in visual stimuli that are neither too simple nor too complex 

  4. The inability to hold objects early on (mitigated by tools such as sticky mittens)

The relative physical helplessness of human infants as they slowly learn social skills

300

Pinwheel maps refer to

  1. Brodmann's areas in visual processing

  2. V1 regions of visual sensitivity to line orientations

  3. Ocular dominance columns favoring one eye over the other

  4. The striped line visual illusion underpinning the McCollough effect 

V1 regions of visual sensitivity to line orientations


300

Intracranial EEG studies tend to be run on ____ patients.

  1. Diabetic

  2. Lesioned

  3. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

  4. Epilepsy



Epilepsy

300

What are good resources for seeking out networking and internships, according to Dr. Guo?

  1. LinkedIn

  2. Referrals from faculty, bosses

  3. UCSD tools (career center, email)

  4. A and B

  5. A, B, and C

A, B, and C

400

Which of the following was NOT a given example of “starting small” in regards to the self-tuning of human sensory systems in development?

  1. Newborns see with lower visual acuity at first, and it gradually improves

  2. Infants hear limited ranges of frequencies, and improve in pitch detection over time 

  3. Infants see a limited amount of shapes, and improve in angle-detection over time

  4. Infants are sleeping or held for long periods of time, lowering the range of environmental stimuli they may experience

Infants see a limited amount of shapes, and improve in angle-detection over time

400

Language comprehension tends to be better explained by the ____ theory. Language production tends to be better explained by the ____ theory.

  1. Sequential learning; overlapping of learning

  2. Sequential learning; sequential learning

  3. Overlapping of learning, sequential learning

  4. Overlapping of learning, overlapping of learning

Overlapping of learning, sequential learning

400

In Dr. Cazares’ lecture describing research on children with Rett’s Syndrome, converting EEG data to a power-frequency graph showed that Rett’s children show ______ compared to typically developing children.

  1. Less 5 Hz oscillations

  2. Less 10 Hz oscillations

  3. Less 15 Hz oscillations

  4. Less 20 Hz oscillations

Less 10 Hz oscillations


400

In Dr. Xia’s talk about app-centric information environments, “bloatedness” refer to

  1. Apps that offer many different sets of options and overwhelm users with information

  2. Apps that only give one filter or one set of options for users to carry out searches

  3. Workspaces that are fragmented across several apps and prolong work time

  4. Apps that are inefficient and slow the user machine’s processing

Apps that offer many different sets of options and overwhelm users with information

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