Book description
Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning presents experimental research works on the issue of knowledge acquisition in Cognitive Psychology. These research works – initiated by groups of researchers with academic backgrounds in Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence – explore learning mechanisms by viewing humans as information processing systems. Although the book is centered on research studies conducted in a laboratory, one chapter is dedicated to applied research studies, derived directly from the fundamental research works. Computer modeling of learning mechanisms is presented, based on the concept of cognitive architecture. Three important issues – the methodology, the achievements and the evolution – in the field of learning research are also examined.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Useful Concepts and Representation Formalisms
- 2 Definition and Historical Overview
- 3 Learning to Solve a Problem
- 4 Learning a Concept from Examples of Concepts: Induction
- 5 Implicit Learning
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6 The Role of Prior Knowledge in Constructing a Representation of a Problem
- 6.1. Experimental method based on comparing group results
- 6.2. Experimental method based on multiple trials of the same problem with vocal description of actions by the subject: individual protocol and modeling
- 6.3. Experimental method using learning transfer to study the effect of problem presentation in the choice of prior knowledge
- 6.4. Conclusion: the role of prior knowledge in the construction of problem representations
- 7 Acquiring Knowledge in a Specific Domain
- 8 Causal Learning
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9 Symbolic Processing System Models in Cognitive Psychology
- 9.1. Why formalize?
- 9.2. Modeling complex skill acquisition using ACT-R: Taatgen and Lee (2003)
- 9.3. Modeling a two-player game
- 9.4. A model of learning through multiple analogies
- 9.5. Robert Siegler’s two models for learning arithmetic calculation
- 9.6. Links between SPS models in cognitive psychology and learning models in AI
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Cognitive Mechanisms of Learning
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2020
- Publisher(s): Wiley-ISTE
- ISBN: 9781786305770
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