PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Artificial Neural Network, Autobiographical Memory, Computer Simulation
9 Apr 2020
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Chapter 9 - cognitive development: the information-processing approach. Information from the world provides input into the brain. Programming a computer to perform a cognitive task in the same way in which humans are thought to perform it. Creation of artificial neural networks, embodied in computer programs, that solve cognitive tasks and modify their solutions in response to experience. Scripts for sequences of familiar actions or routine events in one"s daily world. A representation of the typical sequence of events in a familiar context. The ways that individuals interpret the information they take in in terms of their pre-existing knowledge, which effect what they remember. Specific, personal, and long-lasting memory about the self. The realization that some perceptually present stimulus or event has been encountered before. The retrieval of some past stimulus or event that is not perceptually present. Memory of stimuli presented prenatally (mother"s voice, familiar story)
