Welcome to your Chapter 5 - Self Study Quiz

1. To whom is the discovery of neural networks usually credited?

2. What is the main difference between McCullough and Pitts’ conception of a neural network and Hebb’s conception of a neural network?

3. Who coined the term “perceptrons”?

4. What is the main difference between single-layer and multilayer neural networks?

5. What is the principal challenge for multilayer networks?

6. Who edited the classic two-volume collection on training multilayer networks?

7. The backpropagation algorithm alters weights in the ________.

8. What types of algorithms are considered to be more biologically plausible than the backpropagation algorithm?

9. Which of the following is a way to build a neural network that doesn’t require feedback?

10. Which of the following is a central feature of information processing in neural networks?

11. All of the signals reaching a neuron’s dendrites will increase or promote firing.

12. Neurons in the brain are all basically the same physically, just like artificial neural networks.