PSYCH 3UU3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Connectionism
18 Apr 2014
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The way in which we categorize the world is not arbitrary, but determined by two important features of our cognitive system: the categories we form are determined in part by the way in which we perceive the structure of the world, the structure of categories might be determined by cognitive economy, trade off between economy and informativeness, may also need to make distinctions between members of some categories more often than others. Sentence verification task: subjects are presented with facts and have to determine if they are true or false, the reaction time is an index of how difficult the decision was, participants produce responses by starting off from the node in the network that is the subject in the sentence, and traveling through the network until they find the necessary information, the farther away the information is, the slower the response time.
