INST 354 Lecture 4: INST354 Lecture 4: Model of the Mind continued
10 Feb 2019
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Inst354 lecture 4: model of the mind continued. Many aspects of human thinking, including judgment and decision making, can be captured with computational models. The essential parts of these models are symbols (e. g. , a theoretical representation of the idea of yellow, or pawn, or 11 ) and operations that compare, combine, and record (in memory) the symbols. Thus, in the chess-playing example, symbols represent the board; the pieces; the rules; and at more complex levels, goals and strategies to win. For purposes of the present book, we can rely on rudimentary descriptions of mental representations in order to characterize the knowledge part of cognitive models of decision processes. The other half of the cognitive theory is a description of the elementary information processes that operate on the representations to store them, compare them, and transform them in productive thought. It is very important to recognize that most of these operations are unconscious.
