Smith E R
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1364, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996 May;70(5):893-912. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.893.
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.
社会心理学家可以从探索心理表征的联结主义或并行分布式处理模型中受益，并且反过来也可以对联结主义理论做出很大贡献。联结主义模型涉及许多简单的处理单元，这些单元通过连接发送激活信号。在抽象层面上，这些模型可以被描述为表征概念（作为激活的分布式模式），像图式一样运作以填充输入信息的典型值，基于可获取的知识而不是检索静态表征来重建记忆，使用灵活且依赖上下文的概念，并通过并行满足众多约束条件来进行计算。本文回顾了有关联结主义模型的开放性问题，并得出结论：社会心理学在诸如认知 - 动机交互等主题上的贡献可能对综合联结主义模型的发展很重要。
