CGSC 1001 Study Guide - Usability, Loss Aversion, Waggle Dance
20 Jun 2015
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What is a cognitive system: a cognitive system is the system in which an agent perceives the outside world around that agent. In the perception phase, it turns things from the environment into meaningful internal representations. In the action phase, it turns theses perceptions into a physical change on the environment. Perceive the world through using their sensors to understand the environment around them an example of these sensors would be light sensors to help perceive light inputs. From here rather than performing an action it takes the information from the updated database and returns a display back to the user. What is distributed cognition and how does it work: distributed cognition is the belief that information is not only embedded within an individual but in both their social and physical environment. In distributed cognition perception happens through both sensory organs in humans and sensors in robots in agents and artefacts: actions happen through using both the body and actuators.
