Cunningham Intelligence

Its Organization and Development
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6477-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Web PDF

Intelligence: Its Organization and Development is an account of the theory of intelligence, with emphasis on its organization and development. It proposes a formalized approach to intelligence, one that is sufficiently precise and abstract to allow a working model to be built on modern computers, but that is also sufficiently flexible and factual to allow an interpretation and unification of some of the findings and concepts of psychology. Comprised of five chapters, this book begins with an overview of a model that reflects some psychological reality and at the same time builds computer-based systems that display some degree of intelligence. Several bodies of psychological knowledge and theory are reorganized and synthesized into this single model, which is amenable to rapid, simple, and efficient computation. The cell assembly theory of Donald Hebb is simplified to its bare essentials, and Jean Piaget's theory of the development of sensorimotor intelligence is made more concrete and explicit. Concepts such as drive and reinforcement are subsumed by the inclusion of the orienting and defense responses as variable controls on channel capacity. The structure of learning and memory is also considered, along with major sensorimotor systems. This monograph should be a valuable resource for both psychologists and computer scientists interested in intelligence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cunningham, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Intelligence: Its Organization and Development;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Dedication;6
6;Preface;10
7;Chapter 1. AN APPROACHTO THE PROBLEM;12
7.1;Introduction; Two Approaches to Modeling;12
7.2;Joining the Two Approaches;16
7.3;A Formalism;19
8;Chapter 2. THE MIND OF A CHILD;24
8.1;Stage I: Reflex Exercise;Beginning from Birth;24
8.2;Stage II: Primary Circular Reactions;Beginning in the Second Week;33
8.3;Stage III: Secondary Circular Reactions;Beginning in the Fourth Month;47
8.4;Stage IV: Familiar Procedures in New Situations; Beginning in the Eighth Month;60
8.5;Stage V: Active Experimentation;Beginning in the Eleventh Month;69
8.6;Stage VI: Mental Recombinations;Beginning in the Second Year;76
8.7;Summary of the Sensorimotor Period;80
9;Chapter 3. MAJOR SENSORMOTOR SYSTEMS;87
9.1;The Visual System;87
9.2;The Auditory and Vocal Systems;93
10;Chapter 4. OLD WINE IN THENEW MODEL;98
10.1;The Structure of Learning and Memory;98
10.2;Short Term Memory: Reverberationsin the Data Structure;104
10.3;Conditioning as a Form of Coordination;108
10.4;Control: States of the Attention Span;117
10.5;Drive and Motive Inferred from the Model;125
10.6;The Cognitive Reflexes;127
10.7;The Underlying Reality:the Brain and Its Function;140
11;Chapter 5. ELABORATIONS AND SPECULATIONS;144
11.1;The Assembly and Its Meaning;144
11.2;Conceptualization;148
11.3;Language;155
11.4;Computer Implementation;164
11.5;Summary: No Conclusions, and Confession;170
12;REFERENCES;175
13;Subject Index;178