PSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Modus Ponens, Risk Aversion, Online Dating Service
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Don"t forget that there"s an online office hour tonight from 4-5 pm!-she thought she was recording but it didn"t-fail :( Analogical problem solving and fmri evidence for prefrontal cortex activity. Unique to humans (ex: radiation & fortress problem) Notice abstract similarity between base & target domain. Hard because we focus on surface feature, not abstract relations. Get correspondence between source problem & target problem (fortress = tumor) Apply the right mapping to generate the common operator. Other animals are bad at using analogies to solve problems for. Analogies require complex reasoning; ex: mat: square is to cube as circle is to ___) When people perform problems that require use of analogy, get activation in prefrontal areas (right, anterior) Experiment: people are doing analogy problems (progressive matrix problems) while fmri. Task is to infer the missing figure & select it among alternative choices, Right anterior prefrontal cortex activated greatest in 2-dimensional condition. Right anterior prefrontal cortex (pg 191) question: on pg.
