CGSC 1001 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 The Cognitive Level .docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Productions are little information processing rules that are fired by the mind when it wants to do something. If you are hungry, and you see food, then you will eat the food. Productions affect us as when something good/bad happens those productions used to reach that state will be made more/less likely to happen again in the future. Learning at the biological level // synapses and synaptic change synapses is the spaces between neurons where communication happens. There is a theory called hebbian theory that states that neurons that fire together wire to together which means that synapses becomes more effective with repeated use. This idea of synapses is how associations are learnt since these neurons can coactivate with one another. Learning at the chemical level // synaptic change in taste receptors. At the chemical level some of the learning occurs in the form of synaptic change.