Modeling cognitive development on balance scale phenomena

Modeling Cognitive Development on the Balance Scale Task

In this paper we describe a production system model of children's development on the balance scale task. Starting with a set of rules that makes random predictions, the system iearns from its errors and improves as it gains experience. The transition mechanism is a discrimination process that searches for differences between cases in which correct predictions are made and cases in which errors ...

Cognitive Dynamics on the Balance-Scale Task

Our ability to detect patterns and observe regularities is a fundamental part of reasoning and learning. Various theoretical accounts conceptualize induction in different ways. In the current study, we used the balance-scale task and mouse-tracking techniques as a means to explore the cognitive dynamics that underlie inductive pattern recognition. Although we did not replicate an expected inter...

Modeling developmental transitions on the balance scale task

Periods of relatively stable, rule-like behavior alternated with short transition periods characterize cognitive development on reasoning tasks like the balance scale task. Each transition gives rise to an improvement in behavior, until a phase is reached in which performance is flawless or improvement is not worthwhile given the necessary extra effort. Several computational models have been de...

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A Contribution to Cognitive Modeling of Affective Phenomena

It is becoming a generally shared opinion that personality affects Human-Computer interaction in the two directions. On one side, computers show a personality in their style of communication, which is perceived by the users and can influence their usability according to whether it is similar or complementary to the user personality. On the other side, it has been shown that ‘even the most super...