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13 Cards in this Set
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What is a cognitive system? |
Something that perceives parts of an environment and creates action towards environment as result |
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What is perception? |
Transforming things in environment into internal representations (ie sight into memory) |
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What is disembodied software? |
Software that does cognition (desire->ouput) for another piece of technology, such as Amazon's recommendation system which is separate from Amazon itself |
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What is distributed cognition? |
When multiple cognitive agents work on the same task. Ie two people working together on a project. |
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What is cognition? Describe in relation to number 3. |
Manipulation of representations. Eyes see number 3, brain recognizes it as 3, knows less that 4, more than 2, etc. |
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Where is memory stored in animals, software, and distributed systems? |
Animal: brain Software: databases, symbols Distributed system: paper, brain , disk, etc |
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Describe sensory memory |
-Can be overwritten every few seconds
-Inputs from the senses |
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Describe short term memory |
-a temporary store for memories
-some things end up in long-term memory from STM -sleep important to transfer memories out of STM -appears to be in hippocampus |
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Describe long term memory |
-memories here probably stored here forever
-some memories may be harder to access than others |
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What are declarative vs procedural memories? |
Declarative: facts/stats Procedural: how to do things/processes, ie how to tie a shoe |
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What are some parts of software memory? |
tables, schemata, frames, scripts, logical sentences, bitmaps, activation patterns, weights in links |
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What is learning? |
Changing memory(s) with the purpose of preparing a mind for better action in the future |
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Name the 7 main types of learning |
Habitua |
