PY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Dual Representation, Winnowing, Reverse Engineering
19 Oct 2017
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Learning to think and create: using things (icons, pictures, numbers, letters, symbols) to stand for, signify, communicate other things, ideas, images, concepts, events, relations, etc. It is fast, flexible, and less error prone: frees up from having to act overtly, provides mobility of thought. Email answer about two glasses with water two socks, pencil, and penguin how do you prove there"s the same amount of water in the glasses. Its glorious indeed: facilitates communication, scale models, maps, drawing, picture books, toys, novel and creative use of objects including fantasy play. Two topics: acquisition of language, engaging in dual representation. Conceptual constraints: what we know about concepts. Pragmatic constraints: what we know about the goals and beliefs of speakers. Mutual exclusivity: everything has one and only one label. Concept features: characteristic features, features typically associated with a concept or object, defining features, core essence or function.
