Exam 15: Minds, Machines, and Cognitive Psychology

In exploring the question of whether computers can be creative,Margaret Boden suggested that putting already familiar ideas or components together in novel but useful or interesting combinations,but according to preset rules,is an example of which of the following?

Match the life event with the individual. -Noam Chomsky

Match the publication with the author. -Sir Frederic Bartlett

The Lovelace Objection refers to which of the following?

Match the definition with the term. -binary switches

Match the definition with the term. -connectionist processing

The idea that one concept may be "contained" within another (e.g.,"human" is contained within "animal")was an important aspect of which of the following?

The concept of "flashbulb memories" was introduced and studied by whom?

Define heuristic.

What important conclusion did George Miller draw after becoming familiar with Noam Chomsky's theory of language?

Match the definition with the term. -difference engine

Newell and Simon's General Problem Solver (GPS)made use of all of the following EXCEPT for which?

Match the publication with the author. -George Miller,Eugene Galanter,and Karl Pribram

The weaver Joseph Jacquard invented which of the following technologies suggested by Charles Babbage in his design for an analytical engine?

Match the definition with the term. -TOTE unit

A type of artificial intelligence computer program that operates by detecting patterns of activity that go on within its entire memory system is said to employ __________.

What was a computer program that employed heuristics and a means-ends analysis in its attempt to simulate problem solving in a generally humanlike fashion called?

In 1651,Thomas Hobbes expressed which of the following radical opinions about the nature of human reasoning?

What philosophical implication did many of Pascal's contemporaries and immediate followers draw from his creation of the Pascaline?

Ada Lovelace was the only daughter of the poet Lord Byron,but is better known to historians as all of the following EXCEPT for being which of the following?