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Assignment:

Research on Knowledge Representation or Manipulation

After completing the unit studies on knowledge representation and manipulation, describe how the scholarly article found addressed one of the issues that will be covered in Unit 7. Analyze how the information would be used when someone is working in a specialty.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

• Apply skills and knowledge required for professional communication.
• Investigate how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices related to memory, language, representation, organization, and manipulation of knowledge, can be applied in professional practice.
• Investigate how knowledge is represented within the mind.

A neutron walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender fills the order and places it in front of the neutron. The neutron asks, "How much will that be?" The bartender responds, "For you, no charge" (Anonymous).

First, how did you know it was a joke? Did you find it amusing? Why or why not? How did you know that the words drink and order were the same things? How did you know that placing it in front meant, most likely, putting the drink on the bar? How did you know that the neutron's question about how much referred to the cost of the drink? How did you know that there were two meanings for the word charge? Is it necessary to know that a neutron has no electric charge?

Also, how is it that you can identify a group of words as a specific type of sentence (in this case, a joke), rapidly process what it means on several different levels, and explain how and why it is funny? (An assumption is being made here.) Furthermore, how was it done without any perceptible effort?

Next, remember the first time that someone visited a new city and had to find their way around. they may know the basics that would allow them to navigate (that there are four cardinal directions and, perhaps, basic landmarks). Yet, navigating in a new city (despite all of your knowledge about spatial navigation) is incredibly difficult. Why are some cognitive processes so effortful while others are so effortful? This unit explores processes that are easy and difficult-and the crucial way that affective processing can impact cognition.

In this unit, consider the following questions:

• What theories, models, and hypotheses are used to explain how knowledge is represented in the mind?
• What are some of the characteristics of mental imagery?
• What are analogical images and symbolic propositions?
• How do spatial skills develop?