... are turned on and off and with a brain nerve cells are excited or inhibited. Both are multi-task devises, capable of using the same hardware to perform a multitude of different operations. Both can be seen to follow organised plans (or programs) to take actions, and both can store and process large amounts of information. Moreover, there have been a number of cases in which certain aspects of human behaviour can be seen to be successfully mimicked by computer programs. Seigler (1986)3 wrote a program that simulated the performance of children undertaking subtraction problems. It makes the same mistakes that they do, it takes the same time over the problems as they do and improves through experience in the same way. This is very impressive in its own right, but the question is still raised as to whether this is enough. In order to be of use on a psychological ...

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