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COGNITIVE UNDERSTANDING [2 records]

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Record 1 2014-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
CONT

At each age, social cognitive understanding contributes to social competence, interpersonal sensitivity, and an awareness of how the self relates to other individuals and groups in a complex social world.

Key term(s)
  • sociocognitive understanding

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Finalement, les recherches récentes ont non seulement documenté une vaste gamme d’acquisitions sociocognitives d’apparition précoce, mais elles ont aussi fourni des données probantes sur les effets de ces acquisitions, démontrant des relations constantes entre la compréhension sociocognitive et la qualité des interactions sociales des enfants.

Key term(s)
  • compréhension socio-cognitive

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

What level of understanding can we hope to successfully make computers reach in the next ten years? The answer is somewhere in the middle of the spectrum: making sense-cognitive understanding-complete empathy. A computer which understands at the level of cognitive understanding will be able to do some of the following things: learn or change as result of its experience, relate present experiences to past experiences intelligently, formulate new information for itself, explain itself-say why it made the connections it did, and what thought process was involved in reaching a conclusion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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