A2: PY104 Practice Test Assignment List

From: HARNAD Stevan (harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 15 1996 - 13:58:58 BST


Here are the 77 questions, together with the names of those who have
been assigned them. At the end is an inverted list, names first,
followed by question number.

*Question 1. What role does analogy play in creative thinking? (1)
BECK, ALEXANDRA. (2) ABDULLAH, KO.

Question 2. Why is it easier to measure intelligence than
creativity? (1) BILAK, ALEXANDRA. (2) AHERN, CATHERINE.

Question 3. Discuss Pasteur's observation that "Chance Favours the
Prepared Mind." (1) BOLLONS, NICK. (2) AYTON, D.

Question 4. What is the difference between an unconscious process and
an unconscious mind? (1) CAPON, SAM. (2) BARDWELL, SAM.

*Question 5. Is giftedness inborn or is it the product of learning?
(1) CHALMERS, JENNY. (2) BARROW, CJ.

*Question 6. Discuss "practice makes perfect" in relation to
creativity. (1) CHAN, DOROTHY. (2) BECKETT, DUAN.

Question 7. Can there be an algorithm for creativity? (1) CHATWIN,
JUDY. (2) BELCHER, IAN.

*Question 8. What evidence is there for the existence of unconscious
perception? (1) COOKE, ALEX. (2) BLACKMAN, MC.

Question 9. Describe Libet's findings on the timing of a decision to
move. (1) CRUMLEY, DONNA. (2) CARLESS, RACHAEL.

Question 10. Describe Donders's subtractive method for timing
cognition. (1) DALE, REBECCA. (2) CHAMPION, JIM.

Question 11. Why is there a problem about consciousness as a cause?
(1) DANHALL, ANNA. (2) COZINS, JL.

*Question 12. What is Orwellian and Stalinesque revision? (1) DARLING,
ANDREA. (2) CREED, R.

Question 13. What is the Turing Test? (1) DEARNS, RACHAEL. (2)
DAWSON, JON.

*Question 14. How can we know if a memory is real? (1) DI.VIRGILIO,
G.. (2) FERNANDO, NISHA.

Question 15. What is the difference between proximal and distal ("ultimate")
causes in evolution? (1) DIXON, JO. (2) FOSTER, STUART.

*Question 16. What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness? (1)
DOCK, JEANNIE. (2) FOWLER, STEVE.

Question 17. What is the "Blind Watchmaker"? (1) DUNN, CHRIS. (2)
GATES, JAMES.

Question 18. What is inclusive fitness? (1) EDWARDS, LA. (2)
GOONEWARDENE, ROHAN.

Question 19. What is the "base-rate" fallacy? (1) ELLIOTT, MARK. (2)
HART, JAMES.

*Question 20. What is the difference between behaviour genetics and
sociobiology? (1) FENTON, ELIZABETH. (2) HASELDINE, PHILIP.

*Question 21. How can evolution help explain cognition? (1) FLETCHER,
EMMA. (2) HOLLOWAY, STEPHEN.

Question 22. What is the difference between syntax and semantics? (1)
FRYER, BECKY. (2) JENKINS, NICK.

Question 23. What is the Poverty of the Stimulus? (1) GLASSCOCK,
EMMA. (2) JEREMICZ, ANNA.

*Question 24. What are over- and underextension in word learning? (1)
GOODING, HILARY. (2) JESSE, K.

*Question 25. What is modularity? (1) HALE, PIPPA. (2) JONES, LA.

Question 26. What is wrong with Skinner's explanation of language
learning? (1) HARTE, TOM. (2) LAUD, EMMA.

Question 27. What is Universal Grammar (UG)? (1) HEDGES, JOANNE. (2)
LEWIS, LEWIS.

*Question 28. What is "parameter setting"? (1) HERHEIM, AASTE. (2)
MAATZ, G.

Question 29. What is the Classical View of Categorisation? (1)
HOOPER, MOLLY. (2) MURFITT, GARETH.

Question 30. What is the evidence for a prototype theory of category
representation? (1) HUMPHREYS, REBECCA. (2) NADEN, CHRIS.

Question 31. What is Categorical Perception? (1) KAKAD, S. (2)
NETHERCOTT, CT.

Question 32. What is the Symbol Grounding Problem? (1) LANDER, EMMA.
(2) NEWTON, CLAIRE.

Question 33. What is the problem of "vanishing intersections"? (1)
LEE, LIZ. (2) O'DELL, SAMANTHA.

Question 34. What is Pinker's critique of neural nets? (1) LYNE,
KATHERINE. (2) PARKIN, MELANIE.

Question 35. What is Searle's Chinese Room Argument? (1) LYONS, TIM.
(2) PASCOE, CLARE.

Question 36. What is the difference between supervised and
unsupervised learning? (1) MACLEOD, JULIA, 58%. (2) PETRIE, SUSIE.

Question 37. What is the evidence that neural nets are like the
brain? (1) MARSHALL, HELEN. (2) PROCTOR, TOBY.

Question 38. What is the Exclusive-Or Problem? (1) MASON, CORINNE.
(2) SAEGUSA, MITU.

Question 39. What is backpropagation? (1) MCKAY, MARIA. (2) SPICER,
JOANNE.

Question 40. What is the difference between a neural net and a symbol
system? (1) MCNAUGHT-DAVIS, BETH. (2) STANFORD, GRAHAM.

Question 41. What is Minsky's critique of perceptrons? (1)
MUSSELWHITE, CHARLES. (2) TATTON, DAVE.

Question 42. What is Pylyshyn's critique of neural nets? (1) NELSON,
CLAIRE. (2) TIMMINS, MARC.

Question 43. What is computation? (1) NICKSON, JO. (2) TURNER, D.

Question 44. What is an algorithm? (1) NORMAN, LAURA. (2) WATKINS,
JONATHON.

Question 45. What is a Turing Machine? (1) NOTTINGHAM, ANDY. (2) no
one

Question 46. Why does the shape of a symbol need to be arbitrary? (1)
PARISH, KEVIN. (2) no one

Question 47. What are "Granny Objections" to computation? Give
examples. (1) PARKER, BRONWYN. (2) no one

Question 48. What is a proposition? (1) PATEL, SUSIE. (2) no one

Question 49. Give examples of symbol systems. (1) PAYNE, BEN. (2) no
one

Question 50. What is the difference between an image and a symbol?
(1) PEACOCK, KERRY. (2) no one

Question 51. What is Analog Processing? (1) PENNY, REBECCA. (2) no
one

Question 52. What is the Homunculus Problem? (1) PERRY, YVONNE. (2)
no one

Question 53. Who won the Imagery Debate? Why? (1) *SPENCER, KLAIR. (2) no one

Question 54. What is Pylyshyn's critique of mental imagery? (1)
PHILLIPS, BARBARA. (2) no one

Question 55. Discuss: A picture is worth a thousand words (1) PORTER,
JULIE. (2) no one

Question 56. Discuss: "This is not a pipe" (1) ROWE, ANNA. (2) no
one

Question 57. What is a retinotopic map? (1) SAHA, SANNA. (2) no one

Question 58. What are Event-Related Potentials? (1) SHARPLES, KAREN.
(2) no one

Question 59. What is the difference between a mental image and a brain
image? (1) *SILCOCK, CAROLINE (2) no one

Question 60. What questions can brain images answer that behaviour
alone cannot? (no one as this was already done)

Question 61. How can you find out "how" from "when" and "where"? (1)
STACKHOUSE, DAMIAN. (2) no one

Question 62. What is the somatosensory homunculus? (1) STADLER,
KATHRYN. (2) no one

Question 63. What is the difference between PET and MRI images? (1)
STENT, HANNAH. (2) no one

Question 64. What is the mind/body problem? (1) SWASH, JUSTIN. (2)
no one

Question 65. What is the other-minds problem? (1) TCHIGHIANNOFF,
CAROLINE. (2) no one

Question 66. What is consciousness? (1) TOPPING, JANE. (2) no one

Question 67. What is "folk psychology"? (1) VALENTI, GIANNI. (2) no
one

Question 68. What are monism and dualism? (1) WALKER-HALL, JAMES.
(2) no one

Question 69. What is the difference between movement and telekinesis?
(1) WEST, BEN. (2) no one

Question 70. Are we machines? (1) WHITEHEAD, SONIA. (2) no one

Question 71. What is wrong with introspection as a way to study the
mind? (1) WHITEHOUSE, CHANTAL. (2) no one

Question 72. What was right about behaviourism? (1) WHITMAN, HOWARD.
(2) no one

Question 73. What was wrong about behaviourism? (1) WILLOUGHBY,
SARAH. (2) no one

Question 74. What are the observables of psychology? (1) WRIGHT,
JON. (2) no one

Question 75. What is reverse engineering? (1) WRIGHT, VICKI. (2) no
one

Question 76. What needs to be explained about the mind? Give
examples. (1) YOULE, KIM. (2) no one

Question 77. What is the difference between cognitivism and
behaviourism? (1) YOUNG, HOLLY. (2) no one

ABDULLAH, KO: Question 1.
AHERN, CATHERINE: Question 2.
AYTON, D: Question 3.
BARDWELL, SAM: Question 4.
BARROW, CJ: Question 5.
BECK, ALEXANDRA: Question 1.
BECKETT, DUAN: Question 6.
BELCHER, IAN: Question 7.
BILAK, ALEXANDRA: Question 2.
BLACKMAN, MC: Question 8.
BOLLONS, NICK: Question 3.
CAPON, SAM: Question 4.
CARLESS, RACHAEL: Question 9.
CHALMERS, JENNY: Question 5.
CHAMPION, JIM: Question 10.
CHAN, DOROTHY: Question 6.
CHATWIN, JUDY: Question 7.
COOKE, ALEX: Question 8.
COZINS, JL: Question 11.
CREED, R: Question 12.
CRUMLEY, DONNA: Question 9.
DALE, REBECCA: Question 10.
DANHALL, ANNA: Question 11.
DARLING, ANDREA: Question 12.
DAWSON, JON: Question 13.
DEARNS, RACHAEL: Question 13.
DI.VIRGILIO, G.: Question 14.
DIXON, JO: Question 15.
DOCK, JEANNIE: Question 16.
DUNN, CHRIS: Question 17.
EDWARDS, LA: Question 18.
ELLIOTT, MARK: Question 19.
FENTON, ELIZABETH: Question 20.
FERNANDO, NISHA: Question 14.
FLETCHER, EMMA: Question 21.
FOSTER, STUART: Question 15.
FOWLER, STEVE: Question 16.
FRYER, BECKY: Question 22.
GATES, JAMES: Question 17.
GLASSCOCK, EMMA: Question 23.
GOODING, HILARY: Question 24.
GOONEWARDENE, ROHAN: Question 18.
HALE, PIPPA: Question 25.
HART, JAMES: Question 19.
HARTE, TOM: Question 26.
HASELDINE, PHILIP: Question 20.
HEDGES, JOANNE: Question 27.
HERHEIM, AASTE: Question 28.
HOLLOWAY, STEPHEN: Question 21.
HOOPER, MOLLY: Question 29.
HUMPHREYS, REBECCA: Question 30.
JENKINS, NICK: Question 22.
JEREMICZ, ANNA: Question 23.
JESSE, K: Question 24.
JONES, LA: Question 25.
KAKAD, S: Question 31.
LANDER, EMMA: Question 32.
LAUD, EMMA: Question 26.
LEE, LIZ: Question 33.
LEWIS, LEWIS: Question 27.
LYNE, KATHERINE: Question 34.
LYONS, TIM: Question 35.
MAATZ, G: Question 28.
MACLEOD, JULIA, 58%: Question 36.
MARSHALL, HELEN: Question 37.
MASON, CORINNE: Question 38.
MCKAY, MARIA: Question 39.
MCNAUGHT-DAVIS, BETH: Question 40.
MURFITT, GARETH: Question 29.
MUSSELWHITE, CHARLES: Question 41.
NADEN, CHRIS: Question 30.
NELSON, CLAIRE: Question 42.
NETHERCOTT, CT: Question 31.
NEWTON, CLAIRE: Question 32.
NICKSON, JO: Question 43.
NORMAN, LAURA: Question 44.
NOTTINGHAM, ANDY: Question 45.
O'DELL, SAMANTHA: Question 33.
PARISH, KEVIN: Question 46.
PARKER, BRONWYN: Question 47.
PARKIN, MELANIE: Question 34.
PASCOE, CLARE: Question 35.
PATEL, SUSIE: Question 48.
PAYNE, BEN: Question 49.
PEACOCK, KERRY: Question 50.
PENNY, REBECCA: Question 51.
PERRY, YVONNE: Question 52.
PETRIE, SUSIE: Question 36.
PHILLIPS, BARBARA: Question 54.
PORTER, JULIE: Question 55.
PROCTOR, TOBY: Question 37.
ROWE, ANNA: Question 56.
SAEGUSA, MITU: Question 38.
SAHA, SANNA: Question 57.
SHARPLES, KAREN: Question 58.
SILCOCK, CAROLINE: *Question 59 (corrected)
SPENCER, KLAIR: *Question 53. (corrected)
SPICER, JOANNE: Question 39.
STACKHOUSE, DAMIAN: Question 61.
STADLER, KATHRYN: Question 62.
STANFORD, GRAHAM: Question 40.
STENT, HANNAH: Question 63.
SWASH, JUSTIN: Question 64.
TATTON, DAVE: Question 41.
TCHIGHIANNOFF, CAROLINE: Question 65.
TIMMINS, MARC: Question 42.
TOPPING, JANE: Question 66.
TURNER, D: Question 43.
VALENTI, GIANNI: Question 67.
WALKER-HALL, JAMES: Question 68.
WATKINS, JONATHON: Question 44.
WEST, BEN: Question 69.
WHITEHEAD, SONIA: Question 70.
WHITEHOUSE, CHANTAL: Question 71.
WHITMAN, HOWARD: Question 72.
WILLOUGHBY, SARAH: Question 73.
WRIGHT, JON: Question 74.
WRIGHT, VICKI: Question 75.
YOULE, KIM: Question 76.
YOUNG, HOLLY: Question 77.



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