Goal: To think about how delayed gratification influences learning as well as thinking about the relationship between the human brain and artificial intelligence.

Instructions: Please answer the question below in as much detail as you can using your readings and your personal experiences.

1. Read the following articles and explain how you believe delayed gratification impacts learning.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/what-we-learned-from-walter-mischel-the-late-creator-of-the-marshmallow-test

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/

2. Explain some of the fallacies of comparing a human brain to a computer.

3. Playing chess was used in the text as an example of a heuristic approach to problem solving. What are some other practical examples of heuristic approaches to problem solving that we use in day-to-day living?

Define the following terms:

1. Turing test

2. wetware

3. parallel distributed processing

4. serial processing

5. fuzzy logic

6. delayed gratification

7. executive function

8. reduction ad absurdum

9. symbolic model

10. connectionist model