Deck 5: Person As Processor

Question 1

Two of the five kinds of cognitive-affective units are

A) Encodings and Goals/Values.
B) Metal recording and Recalling.
C) Accomplishments and Failures.
D) Cognitive-recall and Replacement.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is not one of the four representational formats in Pinker's model?

A) Mentalese
B) Phrenological representation
C) Phonological representation
D) Grammatical representation

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT and example of a feedback system?

A) Thermostat
B) Balance
C) Catching a ball
D) None of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

When a person attributes human qualities to her computer, it is an example of

A) exaggeration.
B) psychosis.
C) anthropomorphizing.
D) neurosis.

Question 5

Which best describes the "wet mind"?

A) The mind has unique features which perform more efficiently than computers.
B) The mind functions according to similar principles to that of a computer.
C) The mind is plastic.
D) The mind becomes saturated with negative influences.

Question 6

Which of these statements is TRUE?

A) Cognitive scientists do not see the mind as a literal computer.
B) Cognitive scientists see the mind as a computer.
C) Cognitive scientists are particularly concerned with biochemistry.
D) None of the above

Question 7

Someone who believes the universe is made up of complex patterns rather than randomness is most likely a proponent of

A) Universe theory.
B) Conspiracy theory.
C) Chaos theory.
D) Fractal theory.

Question 8

What is the complexity theory about?

A) Complexity of life
B) Self-organizing systems in nature
C) Complex theories in nature
D) Behaviorism

Question 9

What is cognitive science?

A) A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the mind
B) A biochemical approach to understanding the heart and the mind
C) A social approach to understanding human behavior
D) An approach to understanding human personality

Question 10

Mischel viewed the as "meshing with nature."

A) mind
B) entire person
C) complex mind
D) holographic mind

Question 11

Which of these is NOT one of Pinker's representational formats for representing and processing information?

A) Visual image
B) Phonological representation
C) Sensational representation
D) Mentalese

Question 12

What is one of the concepts of complexity theory?

A) Proprium
B) Factor analysis
C) Correlation
D) Repellors

Question 13

What is Rotter famous for?

A) Temperament and values inventory
B) Self-directed search
C) Incomplete Sentences Blank
D) 16 Personality factor test

Question 14

Someone who is required to answer 40 open-ended sentences is most likely taking the

A) 40-Statements Tests.
B) Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire.
C) Rotter Incomplete-Sentences Blank.
D) Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.

Question 15

Which best identifies the role of a repellor in the complexity theory?

A) A force that pulls things towards it
B) A state from which a system tends to move away
C) A sudden and discontinuous change in the dynamics of a system
D) Mathematically plots all possible functional states of a system

Question 16

Who viewed the mind as mental modules?

A) Pribram
B) Turing
C) Pinker
D) Chomsky

Question 17

Who proposed the hologram as a model for how the mind works?

A) Shoda
B) Pribram
C) Pinker
D) Mischel

Question 18

Bifurcation can be defined as

A) a state from which a system tends to move away.
B) a force that pushes things away from it.
C) a sudden and discontinuous change in the dynamics of a system.
D) a slow but continuous change in the dynamics of a system.

Question 19

Pinker said that the mind consisted of

A) mental modules.
B) multiple layers of biochemical machinery.
C) what the brain does.
D) All of the above

Question 20

Contiguity refers to the fact that

A) the mind consists of mental modules.
B) the mind is supported by multiple layers of biochemical machinery.
C) the mind is capable of processing memory and thoughts into physical bits of matter.
D) ideas that are frequently experienced together get associated in the mind.

Question 21

The parallel processing feed-forward and feedback neural impulses of the brain enable it to compactly store

A) mental holograms.
B) poems.
C) stories.
D) light waves.

Question 22

While some computational personality theorists believe that the mind operates using computational principles like a computer, others say that it is a "wet mind" that performs

A) more efficiently than computers.
B) less efficiently than computers.
C) about the same as a computer.
D) they aren't comparable to computers.

Question 23

Social learning theorists view behavior as a result of , while cognitive scientists view behaviors as a .

A) nurture, nature
B) process intelligence
C) nature, self-regulation
D) self-regulation, process

Question 24

Mentalese is defined as

A) two dimensional picture-like mosaics in the "minds-eye."
B) stretches of syllables.
C) hierarchical trees of verbs, phrases, and clauses.
D) the language of thought.

Question 25

In the cognitive-affective units, encodings are , while affects are .

A) constructs for characterizing self, feelings and emotions
B) speculations, knowledge
C) feelings and emotions, constructs for characterizing self
D) knowledge, speculations

Question 26

A system that returns a part of the output signal to the control device for the purposes of "fine tuning" behaviors is said to be a

A) holographic system.
B) wet system.
C) feedback system.
D) organ system.

Question 27

While Allport wanted to isolate the person from the environment to study personality, Mischel and Shoda focused on the

A) biology and chemistry of behavior.
B) situational context.
C) person's physical attributes.
D) person's emotions.

Question 28

The main construct in Pribram's theory is the

A) id.
B) hologram.
C) fractal.
D) homunculi.

Question 29

Pribram viewed personality as a biological hologram, while Pinker emphasized

A) social learning theory.
B) social cognitive neuroscience.
C) computational principles.
D) chaos/complexity theory.

Question 30

According to Mischel and Baker, when marshmallows are described as "white and round - like a moon or a ball," the visualizations are

A) hot.
B) cold.
C) warm.
D) None of the above

Question 31

When scientists talk about patterns in faucet dripping, ocean waves breaking offshore, or volcanoes erupting, they are referring to the

A) holographic image theory.
B) computational model.
C) complexity/chaos theory.
D) multivariable theory.

Question 32

Walter Mischel's point of view of the person is best described as

A) person as processor.
B) interactional.
C) social learning.
D) All of the above

Question 33

Predicting where a ball is going to fall so that you can catch it is an example of

A) feed-forward system.
B) feedback system.
C) response system.
D) None of the above

Question 34

Gravity and vacuums are both examples of

A) affecter.
B) bifurcation.
C) fractals.
D) None of the above

Question 35

Which of these is NOT one of the concepts used by complexity theory to understand the universe?

A) Attractors
B) Bifurcations
C) Fractals
D) Quarks

Question 36

Regions at which one's personality landscape shifts and re-organizes are called

A) fractals.
B) basins of attraction.
C) self-similarity points.
D) developmental bifurcations.

Question 37

Steven Pinker believed that the mind was comprised of , which each specialized in processing different kinds of information.

A) biochemical machinery
B) holograms
C) mental modules
D) homunculi

Question 38

A sudden and discontinuous change in the dynamics of a system is called

A) bombshell.
B) bifurcation.
C) trifurcation.
D) fractal.

Question 39

What is the complexity theory about?

A) Complexity of life
B) Self-organizing systems in nature
C) Complex theories in nature
D) Behaviorism

Question 40

Pinker's model of the mind includes

A) hinges, springs, trapdoors, and tubes.
B) tangibles.
C) models of computational biochemical machinery.
D) All of the above