3.03 Tesis doctorado
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse
Browsing 3.03 Tesis doctorado by Author "Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos"
Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
Results Per Page
Sort Options
- ItemConsequences of theoretically modelling the mind as a computer(2017) Hurtado León, Esteban Andrés; Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de PsicologíaThe computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computer. It does not restrict how the computer is to be programmed, but provides a metatheoretical framework for particular theories to propose different ways in which computer systems can support mentalprocesses. It also functions as a claim about the nature of the mind. Its main goal is to explain mental phenomena based on computational processes.This work argues that well known limitations of computers require more attention in order to understand the possibilities and limitations of the computational theory of mind itself. To that end, a revision of the Turing halting problem and Gödel’s incomplenteness theorems is included as a foundation for arguments about what computational models of the mind could and could not achieve.Contrary to traditional images,computational procedures can be diverse,flexible,adaptable, and deal with the uncertain in successful ways. Therefore, naive criticism of the computational theory of mind could be misplaced. We argue that the main limitations that computational modeling imposes on psychology are: that some important questions have no general answer; that theories are underdetermined by evidence in important ways; and that theories cannot answer specific questions about the nature of their object of study. We also show that the same limitations apply to any theory that restricts itself to making systematic predictions based on finite observations.
- ItemContagio semántico y signo lingüistico(2017) Quezada Gaponov, Camilo; Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de Psicología
- ItemEmpathy and evolution : interspecies emotional recognition and facial mimicry in humans(2018) Torres Araneda, Alejandra; Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de PsicologíaEmpathy is a crucial social phenomenon part of our everyday life. Our ability to access what others are feeling or thinking is essential to the success of every interaction we take part on. Even though lots of scientific interest exists regarding empathy from many different disciplines, no integration of evidence and knowledge between these areas has been achieved. Still no clear definition exist about this central social phenomenon at the foundation of how we interact and understand others. In particular poor integration exist between psychology and evolution still nowadays. The aim of this thesis is to assess the evolutive antiquity of empathy through the exploration of inter-species empathy. Specifically inter-species facial mimicry and emotion facial recognition studies were run to investigate the existence of inter-species empathy and its evolutive origin. Results show only partial support to the hypothesis by showing humans are able to recognize only part of the chimpanzee facial repertoire. Facial mimicry results show no mimicry in the experimental or control condition, possibly due to methodological issues related to contextual modulation. Result from the theoretical manuscript makes visible the benefits of inter-disciplinary integration in the study of empathy by taking together contributions of both evolutive-biology and phenomenology. Finally the present thesis makes a sensible effort, despite mixed experimental results, to integrate different aspects of empathy to study its evolutive origins.
- ItemMyths, tests and games : cultural roots and current routes of artificial intelligence(2019) Musa Giuliano, Roberto Fabrizzio; Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de Psicología
- ItemThe effect of discursive and non-discursive factors on the understanding and aesthetic appreciation of scientific texts(2022) Paredes Mayor, Javiera; Cornejo Alarcón, Carlos; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Escuela de PsicologíaIn this dissertation, through a literature search, two experimental studies and three articles, I explored the effect that the discursive and non-discursive variables have on the understanding and appreciation of science texts by undergraduates with social and science backgrounds. The results suggest that both discursive and non-discursive elements affect the understanding of scientific texts. In the social sciences, a greater emphasis is given to textual markers of “objectivity” to achieve understanding. In the sciences, these markers are not necessarily needed to achieve the perception of understanding. However, in the case of non-discursive elements of texts, modifications that made the text more approachable (e.g., simpler format) allowed the study participants to achieve a greater perception of understanding. A differential effect appeared on the measures of understanding used in the study. These differences could point out differences between levels of expertise and skills that could lead to a greater depth of processing in some participants.