COGS 201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Text: thinking as computation by hector j. levesque, 2011, the cambridge handbook of computational psychology by ron sun, 2008. Cognition dictionary def: the act or process of knowing; perception. Cognitive process: reading what cognitive processes are involved: decide what to read, get the material, locate the position (visual search, pay attention. Summary: computation is an integral part of cognition, cognitive science uses 3-way analogy, cognitive science thrives to understand cognitive processes by the means of computational models. Implementation of these models gives rise to machine intelligence, a topic of study in ai: computers use brute force , humans use heuristics and such. Information linked together and applied to solve a problem: machines can"t really link the info to solve a new problem. They appear to require thought: computational process is a certain form of manipulation of symbols. Manipulating symbols: a mental process is a way of manipulating symbols as in arithmetic expressions (ex: 108.
