Benefits of Psychology Within Computer Science

There are many different mental characteristics that a person must have in order to specialize in a certain field of study. These different fields of study are involved in a certain career choice a person would like to acquire. These mental characteristics of a person are associated with psychology being that it is “the science of the mind or of mental states and processes” (dictionary.com). The psychological benefits of a career such as computer science are very complex however, in order for one to get far within this field; they must first be able to comprehend the importance of technological terms. A type of intelligence that is beneficial towards computer science is called artificial intelligence. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent” (thinkquest). Due to psychological discoveries about the way humans behave, think, interact, and create. Researchers have been able to mimic human beings into machines in this exact same way. It is important for a person within this field to have recognition of the brain’s parts and functions. This is simply because this is the first step in order to create such an intelligence. Without the correct comprehension of the complexity of neural networks, which is the root of intelligence, one wouldn’t be able to create AI. Not only does AI involve this aspect of psychology but it also includes language, methods of learning, and perception. Most of these human characteristics have not only been applied to machines such as robots, but computers as well. Computers have become the most common type of artificial intelligence known today. If you think about it, there are AI’s integrated within each smart phone. You can talk into the speaker asking for a certain command and it will respond with whatever it is that you need. In this case, reasoning between computer and human has taken place. Reasoning in psychological terms,

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