Research Catalog

Title

Cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence : theory and research in cognitive science / Morton Wagman.

Author

Wagman, Morton.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.

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Description

xiv, 176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The nature of cognition is examined by the methods of experimental cognitive psychology and the theoretical models of computational psychology. First explained is the nature and objectives of artificial intelligence, symbolic and connectionist paradigms, the architecture of cognition, and characteristics of a general theory of intelligence. Wagman then examines theory and research in human reasoning and reasoning systems. Experimental research in deductive and inductive reasoning, the nature of artificial intelligence reasoning systems, nonmonotonic and common-sense reasoning, and general types of reasoning in artificial intelligence are examined. Next the author examines the nature of human problem solving and problem-solving systems. Problem representation methods and their duplication by artificial intelligence is discussed at length. Concepts and research in human learning and learning systems are also reviewed, as are the nature of human expertise and expert systems. Major characteristics of expertise including deep knowledge, reasoning strategies, and pattern recognition are described and exemplified in research concerned with medical expertise. The nature of intelligence and intelligence systems is examined, and the physical symbol system hypothesis and its results are analyzed. The author covers an artificial intelligence system that emulates the cognitive processes in scientific discovery and its implications for human creativity. -- Publisher description.

Subject

• Cognitive science
• Artificial intelligence
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognition
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cognition
• Psychology
• artificial intelligence
• cognition
• psychology
• Artificial intelligence
• Cognitive psychology
• Cognitive science
• Kognitionswissenschaft
• Kognitive Psychologie
• Künstliche Intelligenz
• Cognitieve psychologie
• Kunstmatige intelligentie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-168) and indexes.

Contents

1. The Sciences of Cognition -- Artificial Intelligence and Its Objectives -- Cognitive Psychology and Parallel Distributed Processing -- Information Processes and Structures in Computers and Humans -- Characteristics of a General Theory of Intelligence -- Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Psychology -- Major Paradigms in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: Symbolic Systems (Information Processing) and Connectionism (Neural Networks) -- Architectures in Cognitive Science -- A General Theme: Human Intelligence and Intelligent Systems -- 2. Human Reasoning and Reasoning Systems -- Deductive Reasoning -- Experimental Modification of Fallacious Reasoning -- Inductive Reasoning -- Natural Reasoning and Human Intellect -- Reasoning and a General Theory of Intelligence -- Rationality and Psychological Research -- Deductive Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence -- Inductive Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence -- Probabilistic Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence -- Types of Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence -- Commonsense Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence -- 3. Human Problem Solving and Problem-Solving Systems -- Problem Solving and Problem Representation -- Problem Solving and a General Theory of Intelligence -- Artificial Intelligence and Problem-Solving Systems -- The General Problem Solver and Human Intellect -- Problem Solving and Knowledge -- Artificial Intelligence and Problem Solving in the Natural Sciences -- 4. Human Learning and Learning Systems -- Computer Simulation of Learning and Human Intellect -- Learning Processes and Human Intellect -- Inductive Learning and Artificial Intelligence -- Learning and a General Theory of Intelligence -- 5. Human Expertise and Expert Systems -- Human Expertise -- Expert Systems -- 6. The Nature of Intelligence and Intelligent Systems -- The Physical-Symbol System Hypothesis -- Artificial Intelligence and the Processes of Scientific Discovery.

ISBN

• 027594302X
• 9780275943028

LCCN

92001751

OCLC

• ocm26219442
• 26219442
• SCSB-1980744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library