A Research Team Is Studying Which Parts of the Brain

question 44

Multiple Choice

A research team is studying which parts of the brain are active when a participant looks at a photograph of a person, and tries to judge how intelligent that person is. This kind of study is an example of

• A) the artificial intelligence approach.
• B) the information-processing approach.
• C) social cognitive neuroscience.
• D) computer simulation

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Definitions:

Conditional Probability

The estimated probability of an event's occurrence when it is already known that another event has preceded it.

Thomas Bayes

An 18th-century British statistician and clergyman known for formulating the Bayes' Theorem, which describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge.

Likelihood Probabilities

Quantifies the chance of a particular set of outcomes under specific model parameters, often used in statistical inference.

Prior Probabilities

The probabilities assigned to outcomes based on prior knowledge before any new evidence is considered.