PSYCH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Situated Cognition, Simple Math, Ecological Psychology
10 May 2017
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The model smith and thelen developed to account for the a-not-b error focuses on. How the environment, the baby"s recent activity, and time contribute to the error. When a speaker looks at a toy she is naming (but not when she looks away), the baby. Seems to learn the name of the toy; symbols (like words) gain meaning. Recap: situated cognition, when you start considering the body, you have this intuitive way to deal with grounding symbols - a way that other systems don"t have. Connectionists change and revise the way we story information and computation. At a certain developmental stage, kids cannot add together for simple balancing equations > they will start using their hands, indication of separating and understanding the balancing aspect > will eventually get the right answer. The disk game (tower of hanoi) - one group is able to do this on a computer, one group uses their hands > then explain to the third group.
