Personality and Social Cognition
Personality and Social Cognition

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the representational-algorithmic model is the main concern of cognitive psychology but not the only one. The computational theories, by their generality, practically belong to the cognitive sciences, they are the nucleus around which the unification of these sciences is carried out. On the other hand, the analysis of knowledge automatically involves the investigation of the way in which they represented by the human cognitive system and the implementation analysis becomes more and more the appanage of a new group of disciplines – cognitive neurosciences. In this way, the way in which the human subject represents the environment and the knowledge about it, as well as the processing procedures of these representations in order to allow the solving of issues and, finally, adaptation to environment, is the milestone of cognitive psychology. Depending on the type of representations and implicitly their treatment ways, we can illustrate two paradigms guiding the research of the human cognitive system: the classical-symbolic paradigm and the neo-connectionist paradigm. More or less, they are present in almost all cognitive sciences with applications not only in psychology but also in artificial intelligence or cognitive neurosciences.

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