Aesthetic Evaluations

Question 1

What three factors influence aesthetic judgements?

Answer 1

• social information
• individual experience with the stimulus
• individual ability to process a class of stimuli

Question 2

How does familiarity and social feedback influence aesthetic judgements?

Answer 2

individually, they have effects on judgements, and work independently

Question 3

does trait knowledge affect the judgement of physical attractiveness?

Answer 3

no

Question 4

Who critizized Skinner’s idea of behaviorism? And why?

Answer 4

chomsky
- he considered it inadequate to describe language acquisition

Question 5

What did Chomsky think about Large Language Models (GPT)?

Answer 5

because it was behaviorism in disguise and frequently giving weird advice because they work on associations

Question 6

Who was Ulrich Weisner to the psychology community?

Answer 6

he wrote the first textbook in cognitive psychology

Question 7

How did Weisner define cognitive psychology?

Answer 7

processes in which sensory information is encoded. Including non-observable behavior
- attention
- memory

Question 8

what is the concept of functionalism?

Answer 8

the mind is like a computer

Question 9

What does constructivism consist of?

Answer 9

it consists of processing the stimulus beyond what we originally see
- if we see a bunch of dots, but then are told there is a dalmatian there, we will be able to see it
- see faces in regular objects

Question 10

what determines how easy it is for someone to recollect something?

Answer 10

• the recency and frequency of the previous exposure to the mental information
• priming

Question 11

what is the availability heuristic?

Answer 11

the ability in how easy we are able to recall things