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Recall
that the figure below (discussed on the page entitled Mental
Olympics) was intended by the researchers who developed it
as a summary of what some believe are the most important properties
of the human "architecture" that underlies or supports
human cognition. Assume that this characterization of the human
architecture is accurate. Note that there are basically three
sorts of assumptions embedded in this picture.
- Assumptions about the basic
components of the human architecture.
- Assumptions, represented by
the red arrows, about how information can or cannot flow between
the components of this architecture.
- Assumptions about the basic
properties of each component.
- State one or more predictions
that you think are probably true about human reasoning
that can be made from these assumptions together with a brief
statement showing how the prediction follows from the assumptions
represented in this figure.
- State one or more predictions
that you think are probably false about human reasoning
that can be made from these assumptions together with a brief
statement showing how the prediction follows from the assumptions
represented in this figure.
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