Learning and Memory
When my mom took away my xBox cause I didn't clean my room.
What is Negative Punishment?
The analysis of the meaning of a word(s).
What is Conceptual analysis?
The two components of the reward system.
What are desire and pleasure?
Because this DNA is exclusively passed down by the mother, and very well preserved (few to no mutations over time) we have a ___ Eve and not a ____ Adam.
What is the mitochondria? (What is mitochondrial DNA also accepted)
Damage to me will decrease your ability to see in the periphery.
What are rod cells?
Without me you can form new procedural memories and not much else (memory wise).
What is a hippocampus?
A field of study interested in many of the same topics as cognitive scientists but never (or extremely rarely) do any experimentation.
What is philosophy?
The time to try and change these is when your life is undergoing a lot of upheaval.
What are habits?
This is a funny name to give to a time-period where our ancestors made predominantly wooden tools.
What is the stone-age?
Human perception is poorly described by this process of comparing incoming sensory information to a known template. Though some older AIs do use this.
What is Template Matching?
When I refuse to shower until my mom eventually gives my xBox back.(2 possible answers)
What is Positive Reinforcement (showering as the giving)?
What is Negative Reinforcement (taking away being smelly)?
Psychology has often been accused of this because its methodology relies on a plethora of experimental data but little theory and no structure through which to understand the data.
What is Dustbowl Empiricism?
This mechanism is part of your cognitive control system, and because of this may not always be available to help you practice good habits and avoid bad ones.
What is willpower?
Habits do not have inhibitory connections.
Human children's inability to drop irrelevant factors when learning new skills is excellent evidence of this.
What is Cumulative Cultural Evolution?
The cues for depth perception.
What are size, perspective, multiple images, occlusion, texture, saturation, focus?
Learning from me that all Cognitive Scientists are interested in Language is an example of this.
What is testimonial learning?
This field is differentiated by it's particular focus on one aspect of cognition and its unique methodology.
What is Linguistics?
Children's tendency to overuse newly learned language rules can help explain why plots of their grammatical competency takes this shape.
What is a U shaped learning curve?
This bias explains why when we encounter a situation that disagrees with our beliefs we tend to forget it.
What is confirmation bias?
Two perception systems that work together to coordinate your arm moving through space as you throw a baseball.
What is kinesthesia and proprioception?
We may predict damage to this brain structure if a person is struggling with motor coordination and proceduralization of skill.
What is the basal ganglia?
How do linguists denote the subject of a sentence in their notation?
If you were Piaget, you would expect children to have an understanding of conservation at this age and stage of development.
What is the Concrete Operational stage (7-11)?
We evolved to be so helpless upon birth and acquire more of knowledge through learning because there was evolutionary pressure on all our ancestors to shrink this.
What are hips?
We may use the idea of Daemons to illustrate the process of this in the brain.
What is vision? (Also "what is visual processing?" accepted)