Exam 12: Cognitive Science 1956-2016

Explain how in some manner embodied cognition and radical behaviorism seem to …"wind up with the same picture of psychology: the study of the organism in direct interaction with the environment, unmediated by thought".

The recent alliance between the symbol system and connectionists approaches revived the Path through Physiology. The name for the field that represents the New Path through Physiology is called _______ , a name invented by George Miller and Michael Gazzaniga.

When John Garcia sickened rats he found that they:

The phenomenon of perceptual defense occurs when a person:

The "New Look" in perception was inspired by the _______ theory of perception.

Piaget believed that cognitive development does not grow _______ but undergoes ______ changes as a child moves from one state to another.

In terms of conscious and intuitive processors, which of the following frameworks views the conscious processor and intuitive processors as both being rule-following and rule governing systems?

Chomsky claimed that human beings are not simply complicated rats. Explain how the work of the Breland's ("The Misbehavior of Organisms") and the research on "conditioned nausea" by Garcia support Chomsky's claim.

Donald Broadbent (1958) proposed a mechanical model of attention and short term memory using balls dropped into a Y-shaped tube. He argued that psychologists should think of input from the senses not as physical stimuli but as________.