MACHINE PSYCHOLOGY

Go to the Google Search Engine and enter two words: machine psychology. You will get back over 500,000 references: <http://www.google.ca>

Text: http://www.msnusers.com/Machine-Psychology Described on the web site http://psychology.about.com/od/beginners as an "excellent on-line book"

Other free AI-related online texts: <http://ai.about.com/cs/onlinebooks>

List of course lessons: <http://www.oocities.org/machine_psychology/Table_of_Lessons>

To engage in discussion with other teachers and learners, subscribe to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/INTRODUCTORY-MACHINE-PSYCHOLOGY

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The purpose of this instruction is to illustrate how an Ivy-League quality course can be taught online by     AUTOMATED INSTRUCTION, ie teaching machine. The "courseware" is under construction and it will   contain errors until it is completed, up to that standard. Point out the errors on the disussion group above      and they will be cheerfully made. More theoretical issues pertaining to automated teaching can be made at   <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AUTOMATED-TEACHING>

***************************************************** Maxim for Man-Mouse-Machine: The cognitive aspect of learning about machines is modelled by maze learning. If a mouse cannot learn a maze 'first time through', that is because of the motivation of the maze teacher and not the stupidity of the mouse. If a human cannot learn the maze of machine operations first time through, that too is because of the motivation of the teacher and not the stupidity of the student, assuming of course that the student is properly motivated and has the prerequisites for learning and the teacher has mastery of the machine. For an actual maze which robots run, see: <http://www.seattlerobotics.org/robothon/maze.html> *****************************************************

Also see "Of Mouse and Man", a commentary on the YTV series, "Pinky and the Brain" at: <http://snowball.frogspace.net/labnotes/pb003a_1.html>

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