AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

STUDYING AND ENCODING MEMORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Connectionism refers to ____
A
the belief that all sensory input is connected
B
the view that memories are produced in specific regions of the brain
C
the belief that encoding, storage, and retrieval are all possible at once
D
the view that memories are products of interconnected neural networks
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Connectionist models take inspiration from the manner in which information processing occurs in the brain. Processing involves the propagation of activation among simple units (artificial neurons) organized in networks, that is, linked to each other through weighted connections representing synapses or groups thereof.

Detailed explanation-2: -Connectionism theory is based on the principle of active learning and is the result of the work of the American psychologist Edward Thorndike. This work led to Thorndike’s Laws. According to these Laws, learning is achieved when an individual is able to form associations between a particular stimulus and a response.

Detailed explanation-3: -Connectionism is a movement in cognitive science that hopes to explain intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks (also known as “neural networks” or “neural nets”).

Detailed explanation-4: -connectionism, an approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that developed out of attempts to understand how the human brain works at the neural level and, in particular, how people learn and remember. (For that reason, this approach is sometimes referred to as neuronlike computing.)

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