CGSC170 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Behaviorism, Readwrite, Syntactic Structures
9 Apr 2018
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Factors that contributed to the rise of cognitive science: new computers 2. new invasive ways to study mind 3. demise of behaviorism. Also claims that humans are innately aware of languages being hierarchical. British mathematician who played a key role in the development of the bomb during wwii: british decryption machine. Data-info/structures and algorithms step by step set of rules that result in an output computational-representation view of mind. Turing machine: provided the theoretical foundation for every modern computing device, inspiration for the idea that the mind is an information processor, components. Each cell may be blank or contain a symbol. A read-write head: defines limits of computation [church-turing thesis, provides underlying structure common to all modern computers [earlier calculating machines were designed to perform very specific tasks] Cocktail party effect -when hearing multiple conversation simultaneously, we manage to focus on one and filter out the others. Thinking as a form of computing- involves inputs/outputs,memory, and decision making.
