University of Pennsylvania Professor Vijay Kumar and His Colleagues Study

question 471

Multiple Choice

University of Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar and his colleagues study how to best program swarms of tiny intelligent four-rotor helicopters to find missing people, create artistic images, or assemble machines in hard to reach places.These tiny four-rotor helicopters are called​

• A) ​quadrotors.
• B) ​bionic bees.
• C) morphemes.
• D) ​heuristics.

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Definitions:

Encoding

The processing of information into the memory system—for example, by extracting meaning.

Detection

The act or process of discovering or identifying the existence of a particular object, signal, or condition.

Interpretation

In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.

Psychophysicist

A scientist who studies the relationship between the physical properties of stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they evoke.