Doing Psychology Flashcards
1
Q
What is the goal of the quantitative approach?
A
To develop a formal theory that can be tested
2
Q
Types of models in psychology
A
Mathematical models
process models
- can be broken into symbolic and connectionist
3
Q
Symbolic vs connectionist models
A
Symbolic
- represent knowledge as symbolic data structures
- manipulate data structures with variablised rules
Connectionist
- represent knowledge as nodes in a network
- process is carried out by passing activation between nodes
