PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Problem Solving, Causal Structure, Turing Test
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Cognitive capacities: capacity to perceive and act on their environments in adaptive ways, entail, acquiring & processing information about our environments - learning & inference, storing this information - representation in memory. Inform future decisions - planning, problem-solving, reasoning & decision making: cognitive psychology: study of cognitive states & processes & how they explain human behaviour & mental experience, cognitive neuroscience: study of neural mechanisms underlying cognitive capacities. Information: detectable changes in stimuli enabling us to: categorise the entities and events encountered. 20,000 neurons; neurons unusually large: useful biological model to explore how learned behaviours are encoded at level of single cells & defined signalling pathways, knowledge represented implicitly (non-declaratively) within its nervous system. Cognitive systems: system cognitive, when: (haugeland, 1991, coordinates behaviours with environmental features that aren"t always reliably present to the system (i. e. , no external signal, copes by having something else to stand in" and guide behaviour.
