There will be two formal assessments.
The topic of the essay is ``A Cognitive Model of ????'', where you will choose the topic for ``????'' (a list of suggestions will be provided). The idea of the essay is that you should locate paper(s), book chapter(s), and web page(s) that describe a cognitive model and the modelling paradigm it has used. Your job is to choose a reasonably detailed cognitive model (excluding those explored in the computer classes) and describe it. This description should include a descriptions of what is being modelled, an indication of the data on which the model is based and how these data are represented within the model, a description of how the model works, an indication of how the output of the model is to be interpreted, any interesting insight about the phenomena being modelled that the model shows up, and a list of the bibliographic/web-based sources used in your research.
Please pay particular attention to rules about plagiarism, especially when using web-based sources.
| Plagiarism is the use, without acknowledgement, of the intellectual work of other people, and the act of representing the ideas or discoveries of another as one's own in written work submitted for assessment. To copy sentences, phrases or even striking expressions without acknowledgement of the source (either by inadequate citation or failure to indicate verbatim quotations), is plagiarism; to paraphrase without acknowledgement is likewise plagiarism. Where such copying or paraphrase has occurred the mere mention of the source in the bibliography shall not be deemed sufficient acknowledgement; each such instance must be referred specifically to its source. Verbatim quotations must be either in inverted commas, or indented, and directly acknowledged. |
