Dynamic Systems

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Dynamic Systems

What is a memory?

Thorndike’s Law of Effect

Examples of copy theories

Nonrepresentational memory?

Symbol processing is necessary and sufficient for intelligence (Newell & Simon, 1976)

Discrete symbols

Reading and Writing

Separate medium and representation?

Dynamic systems

Learning in a dynamic system

Dynamic systems and constraint satisfactions

What is it?

A hint

Cow 54: Where are you?

Constraint satisfaction is dynamic

Constraint satisfaction through relaxation

Constraint satisfaction and partial knowledge

Causes of behavior

How abstract is learning?

Partial knowledge

Building dynamic systems models

Examples from vocabulary and syntax acquisition (van Geert, 1993)

Examples from vocabulary and syntax acquisition (van Geert, 1993)

Dx = a X (1-X)

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Presented at the 1998 meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August 15, 1998