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Cognitive Processes and Problem Solving
Required Readings
Week 1 General Introduction (8/29,31)
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SofA, Ch. 1, Understanding the Natural
and the Artificial World
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N&S, Ch. 2, Information Processing
Systems
Weeks 2-3 Architecture: Introductory
View (9/5,7,12,14)
Simon I:2.3, The Information Storage System
Called "Human Memory"
Richman, et al. (1995), Simulation of Expert
Memory Using EPAM IV
Simon II:2.4, STM Capacity for Chinese
words and idioms: Chunking
Weeks 4-5 Problem Solving in Knowledge-Lean
Domains (9/19,21,26,28)
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SofA, Ch. 3, The Psychology of Thinking:
Embedding Artifice in Nature
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Ericsson & Simon (1980), Verbal Reports
as Data
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Simon I:4.5, The Functional Equivalence
of Problem Solving Skills
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Simon I:4.4 Cognitive Processes in Solving
Algebra Word Problems
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Simon I:7.1 Understanding Written Problem
Instructions
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N&S, Ch.14 The Theory of Human Problem
Solving
Weeks 6-7 Skill Acquisition: Learning
(10/3,5,10,12)
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SofA, Ch. 4, Remembering and Learning:
Memory as Environment for Thought
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Simon II:3.2, The Theory of Learning by
Doing
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Simon II:3.5, Learning Mathematics from Examples
and by Doing
Week 8 Expert-Novice Differences
(10/17,19)
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SofA, Ch. 5, The Science of Design: Creating
the Artificial
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SofA, Ch. 6, Social Planning: Designing
the Evolving Artifact
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Simon I:6.4, Perception in Chess
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Simon II:4.3, Individual Differences in
Solving Physics Problems
Week 9 Overview of Architecture (10/24,26)
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N&S, Ch.14, The Theory of Human Problem
Solving
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Richman et al. (1995)
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SofA, Ch. 7, Alternative Views of Complexity
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SofA, Ch. 8, The Architecture of Complexity:
Hierarchic Systems
Weeks10-11 Representation and Imagery
(10/31,11/2,7,9)
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Simon II:6.3, Why a Diagram is (sometimes)
Worth Ten Thousand Words
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Kaplan & Simon (1990), In Search of
Insight
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Qin & Simon (1995), Imagery and Mental
Models
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Tabachneck, Leonardo & Simon (1994), How
does an Expert use a Graph?
Week 12 Concept Attainment
(11/14,16)
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Simon I:5.5, Problem Solving and Rule Induction
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Simon I:5.2, Empirical Tests of a Theory
of Human Acquisition of Concepts for Sequential Patterns
Week 13-15 Scientific Discovery (11/21,28,30,
12/5,7,12)
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SofA, pp.105-110
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Langley, Zytkow, Simon & Bradshaw Mechanisms
for Qualitative and Quantitative Discovery
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Qin & Simon (1990) Laboratory Replication
of Scientific Discovery Processes
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Simon II:5.3. The processes of scientific
discovery: The strategy of experimentation
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