PSYC 305L Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Artificial Neural Network, Knowledge Network, Connectionism
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They provide a crucial knowledge base that we rely on in our thinking about an object, event, or category; and they enable us to understand new facts we might encounter about the object or category a. ii. Influence how you categorize things, your decision about whether a test case is or is not a particular category a. ii. 2. Also affect how quickly you learn new concepts b. Categorization enables you to apply your general knowledge to new cases you encountered: different profiles for different concepts c. i. People will reason differently about natural kinds and artifacts c. i. 1. They have different beliefs about why categories of either sort are as they are c. ii. In ability to name common objects: the knowledge network, traveling through the network to retrieve knowledge, propositional networks b. i. The smallest unit of knowledge that can be either true or false.
