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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?
(a) The rejection of too much information.
(b) The ranking of important to less important information.
(c) The selection of relevant information.
(d) The simplification of information.

2. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?
(a) As numbers that could not be calculated.
(b) As numbers that could not be defined.
(c) As numbers that could not be identified.
(d) As numbers that could not be computed.

3. What time of memory is most limited?
(a) Long term memory.
(b) Repressed memory.
(c) Short term memory.
(d) Childhood memory.

4. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Computer science.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Advanced mathematics.
(d) Physics.

5. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?
(a) The number is too difficult to compress through computation.
(b) The number is too complex.
(c) Because they are not computable.
(d) It is impossible to work back from the number to find them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the amount of information in a message be expressed in?

2. When were computers first unveiled?

3. At an exclusive meeting in New York City, Shannon commented that the English language had what characteristic?

4. What did mathematician Gregory Chaitin propose about Shannon's concept of entropy as uncertainty?

5. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

(see the answer key)

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