Welcome to your Chapter 4 - Self Study Quiz
1. What was Newell and Simon’s principal contribution to cognitive science?
2. Which of the following claims are included in the physical symbol systems hypothesis?
3. Allen Newell and Herbert Simon claimed that the essence of intelligent thought is the ability to solve problems. One challenge facing computer scientists is the difficulty of limiting the “search space” when trying to find solutions to a problem. What is one way to reduce the search space?
4. Why does Jerry Fodor think that propositional attitudes, and belief-desire psychology more generally, are so successful in explaining and predicting our behavior?
5. What is the difference between the formal and semantic properties of the brain?
6. Which of the following claims about the language of thought would Fodor endorse?
7. Which of the following is the best way to understand sentences in the language of thought?
8. What claim is made by the systems reply to Searle’s Russian room?
9. What claim is made by the robot reply to Searle’s Russian room?
10. Fodor thought that the easiest way to understand how the brain works was to think of the brain as a type of computer.
11. Searle’s Russian room presents a challenge to the physical symbols system hypothesis because the room is not producing complex behavior.
12. According to Fodor, the language of thought allows us to use purely syntactic expressions to represent contents of beliefs and desires because the language of thought is sound and complete.
13. The Russian room argument shows that we can take the Turing test to reveal genuine intelligence.
