Iota-SoT-VUB Thinking about Thinking, Quiz 1

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The Brain

1. Which statement is correct about the salience network? [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

The salience network monitors internal states and external and those that are of relevance goes to the cortex

Main areas are the ones that are ignited when one thinks of herself

It is the only network that transmits signals across a chemical synapse, in a key-lock activation

It is the network that is responsible to the hollow mask illusion

Clear selection

2. Which lobe is primarily responsible for hearing and language? [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Temporal

Parietal

Frontal

Occipital

Clear selection

3. A driver fails to notice a pedestrian who has just stepped out into the road. This is an example of: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Change blindness

Attentional blindness

Space-based attention

In-attentional blindness

Clear selection

4. Please select one of the two topics and explain. Topic 1: In what way can you relate to the statement that the brain reflects the life one lives? Topic 2: How can we use the neuroplasticity feature to transform our minds? [1 paragraph]

2 points

What is Thinking?

5. Which of the following is NOT an intrinsic obstacle to effective thinking in the brain? [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Limited working memory

Cognitive biases

Combinatorial explosion

Self-reinforcing pathways

Lack of data

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6. Which of the following is NOT correct? [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Categories group similar items

Categories tend to be centered on prototypes

Categories tend to be fuzzy

Categories should be defined logically

Different people tend to categorize things differently

Clear selection

7. Associating the topic you are reflecting on with a random word is useful because: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

This reduces the combinatorial explosion

This makes you deviate from well-worn paths of associations

This provides you with more data to use

This expands the size of your working memory

This is likely to make you discover a sticky idea

Clear selection

8. Which thinking method(s) do you personally consider most effective for producing good ideas, and why? [1 paragraph]

2 points

Embodied Cognition

9. According to Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (Malinin 2019), embedded cognition is defined as the idea that: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

The brain and body evolved together and are coupled

Cognition is coupled with the environment

The environment is interpreted through action

Thinking processes take place beyond the body

Clear selection

10. The Victorian thinking about embodiment that influenced field sciences consisted of: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

The idea that bodies produce evidence and can be trained to be instruments of evidence collection

The idea that each body and its feelings are entirely unique and produces an entirely subjective position on the world

The idea that the body is the conduit linking the capacity for abstract thought with an external world that abstract thought refers to

Clear selection

11. If cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive and extended, as Radical Embodied Cognitive Science proposes, is our increased reliance on smartphones, algorithms, robots, automated processes, and posthuman/ transhuman embellishments, simply a continuity in human cognition, or a significant new event transforming cognition? [1 paragraph]

2 points

Symbolic Cognition

12. In the video included in your bundle#2 Stephen Wolfram is speaking about mathematics as a system of axioms. Based on the paper 'On the Autonomous Cognitive Agency of Social Systems' (in the same bundle): is mathematics a social system? [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Yes

Clear selection

13. The following paragraph from Kaidi Wu's article on hypocognition illustrates that: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

There is no cultural concesus about what the traditional family roles are

The modern complexities of relatedness could be better understood if their identifiers were hypocognised

In trying to understand each other people resort to the linguistic categories which are available to them - and this sometimes hampers communication and leaves their interlocutors feeling misunderstood

That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet

Clear selection

14. Speaking of the Romeo and Juliet quote in the context of what we have been discussing in the 'Symbolic cognition' class (the visual reminder below): do you think that the rose by any other name would always smell as sweet? [1 paragraph]

2 points

Intelligence

15. According to Jacobsen, M.E. (2000), a balanced expression of giftedness related traits, a prerequisite for evolutionary intelligence, is shown by: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

Openness to experience, self-understanding, being ideal-driven

High cognitive competence, success, conviction

Clear selection

16. IQ tests can help estimate someone’s intelligence because: [Choose 1 answer]

1 point

They provide a very wide range of questions and answers

They test your concrete, factual knowledge

They always require abstract, logical reasoning

They exclude feelings, intuitions and cognitive biases

They ask you to reflect deeply about complex problems

Clear selection

17. From the following statements, one or more describe or strongly resonate with the concept of Open-ended intelligence, while the rest are sophisticated confusing slogans. Mark all the ones which describe or resonate with Open-ended intelligence and only them. [Choose all that apply]

1 point

Open-ended intelligence singles out the human creative ability to solve difficult complex problems

Open-ended intelligence is how sense is made out of non-sense

Open-ended intelligence is to do with boundary formation

Open-ended intelligence is the ability to be open-minded to the ideas coming from other thinkers

Open-ended intelligence can be understood as the process of becoming intelligent

Open-ended intelligence is a useless concept therefore it is not really a concept at all

The next step of human mental evolution is replacing conventional intelligence with Open-ended intelligence

Thinking is never given but is forced upon the thinker

Gifted people are prone to demonstrate open-ended intelligence more than others

Open-ended intelligence is about inverting the roles of problems and solutions thus teaching us not to be too focused on our goals

Evolution is a game of open-ended intelligence

Multiple choice quizzes are antithetical to open-ended intelligence because they offer only a finite number of options (think well this is a tricky one!)

18. 'There are people who are undeniably highly gifted' — 'Living with associated traits can be quite a challenge' — 'Society should make an extra effort to support gifted people' — 'It's in society's best interest to do so.' What is your response to these statements? [1 paragraph]

2 points

19. Please describe one aspect of the concept of “open-ended intelligence” that to your understanding differentiates it most significantly from the more conventional definitions of intelligence. Improvisations on what was said in class are welcome but not everything goes… [1 paragraph]

1 point

20. Please describe a real-life situation or a problem you faced that the concept of “open-ended Intelligence” could help you to make sense of in a novel or surprising way. If you do not find such a situation, a fictional story that convincingly makes the point is equally accepted. [1 paragraph]

1 point

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