PSYC-3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ticker Tape, Turing Machine, Parse Tree
22 Jan 2019
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Elements of classical cognitive science / underdetermination and. Every time the dog gets a bell with food, the less and less surprised he becomes. Wagner model - predicts a lot of phenomena but not all (ex reinforcer devaluation) It"s basically a prediction system - predict-reward, can also be thought of as error detection. Dopamine is a transmitter that is involved in error prediction. 100% a question on the levels of analysis. Behaviourism conceptualizes learned behaviours as the result of habituation, sensitization, or conditioning - classical or operant. Behaviourists therefore have traditionally viewded language expression as another example of behaviour elicited by external stimuli that have come to control behaviour via associative conditioning. Modern linguist reject the behaviourist characterization of language as failing to account for the observed structure of language. We have seen how a phrase marker provides a description of a sentence"s grammar- generated structure. However, other, less powerful, machines also exist.
