CGSC 1001 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Cognitive Science, Memory, Time
20 Nov 2018
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Cognitive system: characterized by having an interaction w/ an environment, in an information- processing way. It takes in information from the environment in the form of perception (matter/energy) Cognitive science is the study of minds. Loop: environment (perception) cognitive system (action) environment. Through perception, you take info and turn into representations. Perception (clicks, what you bought, what people like you bought) Display to screen example: amazon"s recommender system action. Calculator + student form a system to complete homework (all parts environment despite individual cognitive tasks) Distributed systems: paper, brain, disk, environment manipulation. In cognitive science, cognition is not just in living things. Human memory of fact and perceptions (not skills) Sensory memory (stored info in a raw form, attended to it later, very very short, ex: hearing, vision) Short-term memory (temporary store, some things end up becoming long-term memories) Long-term memories (probably stored forever, though we might have trouble with retrieval) *brain determines what it might need in the future.
