Cognitive Science

Test 1 / 2005

Modified: 2/22/2005

Instructions: Due before 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 1

Submit your answers as hard copy. Be sure your answers are complete.

Answers should be legible (i.e., not hand written), complete, thoughtful, and articulate. You may consult with me via e-mail as you develop your answers (probably a good strategy). Shoot for at least one page per question and do not simply copy and paste answers. Use quotes to indicate sources you found elsewhere and provide URLs or references where appropriate. Failure to properly cite sources may lead to a grade of zero for that item!

1. Using the telephone (wired and wireless) as an example, show how that technology helps define the past,present, and future of cognitive science.

2. Go through a typical day in your life. Describe at least five instances where you interface with something. (e.g., interface with your shower...). Provide some detail on why it is an interface and how the interface works! Only one example can use a computer.

3. Representation is a core concept in cognitive science. Using the five aspects of representation discussed in class: domain, content, code, medium, and dynamics, represent SAU. (e.g., Muleriders = code, why?) You may provide five examples or combine aspects.

4. Using Kardas & Milford's Chapter 2, describe the early development of the Internet.

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