Study Guides for COGS 100 at Queen's University

COGS 100 Introduction to Cognitive ScienceLecture 1Cognitive ScienceCognition noun The act or process of knowing perception The product of such a process something thus known perceived knowledge etc Cognitive ScienceSearch...

PSS-ANN Two approaches to implement cognitive models - Physical Symbol System (PSS) - Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Physical Symbol System - Rule based systems o Examples of a PSS...

MEMORY Memory - Humans have two types of memory o Natural Memory Inborn o Artificial Memory Acquired through learning and practice of mnemonic ...

MENTAL MODELS Johnson Laird & Byrne - People are rational on paper, but fallible in reality - Three classes of theory of deduction o Formal logic Technically impossi...

VISION, OBJECT RETENTION, AND ATTENTION Human Visual System - Visual system consists of 32 separate systems, each dealing with a different visual characteristic, such as color, motion, location, and othe...

PROBLEM SOLVING, PLANNING, AND DECISION MAKING Planning - Happens for all actions regardless whether or not it is a conscious one - Unconscious planning is based on experiences and involves more heuristic...

CONNECTION REVIEW Connectionist Approach - Information is stored as nodes on a graph - Links between nodes show dependencies of info pieces and how it affects overall behavior - Used to model the ...

IMAGE REVIEW Mental Images - Mental images are an exact representation of our experiences o Mainly visual images, such as maps, pictures, diagrams, etc. o Can also be other types...

CONCEPT REVIEW Concepts - A mental representation of a class of objects or events - Learned through previous experiences and from other concepts - Concepts are multimodal o More tha...

Neuroscience Approach Cognitive Neuroscience - Studies the neural structure and processes underlying human cognitive function and emotion Neuroscience Methods - Case study method o Look...

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