COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Mental Model, Aorta
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Computational metaphor (1st gen cog sci moving toward modern cog) Try to analyze everyday cognition find basic processes. A class (mathematical term) of objects that we sense belong together. The idea is that we mentally group things together so that they become to belong tog in our mind. Why? (what will lead us to believe that much of our cog is dependant to this ability). Categorizing optimizes our ability to deal with the world-> downside: difficult to see things as an individual (ex. Looking at a table and not thinking of it as a table, ex. Inductive generalizations: allow us to increase our scope of cognition. We would say right because of categorization (extended through inductive generalization) Not only allow us to code and abstract info but also improves communication (to urself (ex. Writing notes to urself) and others), cognition allows us to use common nouns. We can communicate more precisely and powerfully through categorization.
