You go to a restaurant for dinner, and for the majority of t…
You go to a restaurant for dinner, and for the majority of the evening you have a pretty typical dining experience. Right before you give the server your credit card to pay for your meal, a person sitting in the booth next to you gets up and asks you to marry her. Based on what we know about a schema, how well will you remember the impromptu proposal in the future, in comparison to the other events that happened that night?
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Suppose that several cognitive scientists are trying to program a computer so that it solves a particular problem in the same way a human does, taking into account that a human may make a few false starts before successfully solving the problem. This approach is called .
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