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Smith ER. What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996;70(5):893-912doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893.
Smith, E. R. (1996). What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?. Journal of personality and social psychology, 70(5), 893-912. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893
Smith, E R. "What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?." Journal of personality and social psychology vol. 70,5 (1996): 893-912. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893
Smith ER. What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996 May;70(5):893-912. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893. PMID: 8656338.
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J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996 May;70(5):893-912. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893.

What do connectionism and social psychology offer each other?.

Journal of personality and social psychology

E R Smith

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  1. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1364, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 8656338 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893

Abstract

Social psychologists can benefit from exploring connectionist or parallel distributed processing models of mental representation and process also can contribute much to connectionist theory in return. Connectionist models involve many simple processing units that send activation signals over connections. At an abstract level, the models can be described as representing concepts (as distributed patterns of activation), operating like schemas to fill in typical values for input information, reconstructing memories based on accessible knowledge rather than retrieving static representations, using flexible and context-sensitive concepts, and computing by satisfying numerous constraints in parallel. This article reviews open questions regarding connectionist models and concludes that social psychological contributions to such topics as cognition-motivation interactions may be important for the development of integrative connectionist model.

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