PSY370H1 Lecture Notes - Gestalt Psychology, Combinatorial Explosion, Crossing Lines
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Gps = fundamental framework for ai & thinking. Success: formalized a technical explanation for problem solving which led to further discoveries. Framework - space, initial & goal states, operators, path constraints, solution. Solution: sequence of operations that can transform the initial state goal state while obeying path constraints. Flawed assumptions: featural, categorical view of probsolv: transfer-specificity, domain-specificity framing & formulation is a minor problem, well vs. ill-defined problems. At no point do they really get it . Associationism: idea that simple learning mechanism (law of effect) splains intelligence. Said sultan & cat were doing very different things. Said sultan was performing a massive restructuring of salient features an aspect. Insight: a perception metaphor for problem formulation, ability to restructure ill-defined formulations, a qualitative change in learning. Gestaltists no: formulation is like perception, solving is like action. Newell used these to make the gps, but did not make the gps use these heuristics.
