CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cognitive Architecture, Cognitive Model, Procedural Memory
14 Dec 2018
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A model is a representation of something that includes important information, excludes unimportant information. A scale model of a home made of cardboard. A categorization scheme for the students in the class. A computer program that models some aspect of though. It might model how people do categorization, or how a mouse learns to navigate a maze. Model makes predictions that can then be compared to data. If the predictions match the data, it supports the theory underlying the model. A programming environment or set of tools for making cognitive models. Supposed to represent the basics of cognition that all humans have. Typically it includes constraints on how cognition works in all people - speed of learning, memory retrieval etc. In some ways it is easier to make a model in architecture. The architecture implements the di erent kinds of things across people. Operates using number representations, which in aggregate constitute symbols.
