Cognitive representations and priming

Question 1

What was Chomsky’s argument against behaviorism?

Answer 1

that behaviorism doesn’t account for a toddlers language acquisition
- sometimes reinforcement isn’t enough

Question 2

Who argued that Large Language Models weren’t to be idolized because they rely solely on associations

Answer 2

Chomsky

Question 3

Who wrote the first textbook in cognitive Psychology (and what year?)

Answer 3

Ulrich Neisser

Question 4

What was Ulrich Neisser’s definition of cognitive psychology?

Answer 4

all processes in which sensory input is transformed and decoded.

Question 5

what is functionalism?

Answer 5

the idea that the mind is like a computer

Question 6

What is constructivism?

Answer 6

the idea that we see things beyond what is presented

Question 7

what are determinents of priming?

Answer 7

the frequency and recency

Question 8

What did Meyer and Schvanevelt find about assosiactions?

Answer 8

related primes allow for better and faster recollection of previously primed thoughts

Question 9

what is the availability heuristic?

Answer 9

the ability and flexobility we have to recall primed memories and thoughts

Question 10

Out of the 20 female names and 20 male names in Tversky and Kahneman’s experiment, why were the female names recalled more?

Answer 10

because the names were of famous women, an example of availability heuristic