The computational-Representational Understanding of Mind opereates with the following kind of explanation schema

The computational-Representational Understanding of Mind opereates with the following kind of explanation schema

Explanation target
Why do people have a particular kind of intelligent behavior?

Explanatory pattern
People have mental representations.
People have algorithmic processes that operate on those representations.

The processes, applied to the representations, produce the behavior.

The words in boldface are placeholders, indicating that to explain various kinds of intelligent behavior, various kinds of representations and processes can be considered. Currently, there are six main approaches to modeling the mind, involving logic, rules, concepts, analogies, images, and neural connections. These can be evaluated according to five criteria : rep-resentational power, computational power, psychological plausibility, neurological plausibility, and practical applicability. 
 

-Mind chapter1, Paul thagard.