1. Behaviourists studied the mind. FALSE
2. The mind is publicly observable. FALSE
3. Behaviourism was reverse engineering. FALSE
4. Monists think the mental and the physical are the same kind of thing. TRUE
5. There is no way to be sure anyone else but you has a mind. TRUE
6. There can be feelings without thoughts. TRUE [controversial]
7. There can be thoughts without feelings. FALSE [but dropped]
8. Parameter setting can be learned by Skinnerian learning, but not UG. TRUE
[dropped if you misinterpreted the grammar of the question!]
9. PET scans give more accurate timing than Event-Related Potentials. FALSE
10. The subtractive method was developed before brain imaging. TRUE
11. Imagery requires a homunculus. FALSE
12. Mental images are publicly observable. FALSE
13. Brain images are publicly observable. TRUE
14. MRI is better for determining "where" than "when." TRUE
15. The shape of an image is arbitrary. FALSE
16. A symbol resembles what it symbolises. FALSE
17. The proximal reason we eat food is because it tastes good. TRUE
18. The distal reason we eat food is because it promotes survival. TRUE
19. A question is a proposition. FALSE
20. The Chinese Room Argument is not a Granny Objection. TRUE
21. Analog processing is symbol manipulation. FALSE
22. A Turing Machine does analog processing. FALSE
23. Neural nets can do XOR. TRUE
24. Backpropagation is unsupervised learning. FALSE
25. Most learning problems in life are supervised. TRUE [controversial]
27. Searle agrees with Granny. TRUE [but dropped]
28. We do not know how we decide whether or not something is a game. TRUE
29. The category "bird" is better explained by prototype theory than the
category "big" is. FALSE
30. All category membership is a matter of degree. FALSE
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31. Syntactic rules are not based on meaning. TRUE
32. UG is learnt by honest toil. FALSE
33. Behavour geneticists measure inclusive fitness. FALSE
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