Cognitive Science Flashcards
(5 cards)
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What is the major unifying implication of thinking of cognition as information processing?
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It must involve representation or symbolism, and each of the disciplines drawn on in CogSci involved solving research problems by designing ‘symbolisms.’
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What foundational assumption did cognitive scientists share?
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The assumption that cognition is information processing.
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What are Marr’s three levels of explanation that information processors require?
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Computational, algorithmic, and implementational.
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The three major schools of cognitive science:
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Classical, connectionist and embodied.
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What does info processing mean to the classical cognitive scientist?
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It means rule-governed symbol manipulations of the same type performed by a digital computer.
