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Is Robotics Relevant to Psychology?  

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D.Hook 3/1/00 Is Robotics Relevant to Psychology? For many years psychologists have been looking for a practical model that can be used to accurately duplicate the actions and responses of the brain so that they can more fully understand its working. The result of this for many is that computers may be able to be used for this task. Garnham (1988)1 says that: "Artificial intelligence is an approach to understanding human behaviour based on the assumption that intelligence can be best analysed by trying to reproduce it, in practice through simulation on a computer. The explicit goal of many is to write a program that behaves the way that people do. Therefore artificial intelligence is directly related to cognitive psychology." There are a number of obvious similarities between computers and the human brain which have led to this conclusion2. Both, on a fundamental level, are processors of information which take inputs...

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