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Sleeman, D. H. – International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1975
Paper discusses in some detail the design of a problem-solving monitor and includes an annotated student protocol and the corresponding problem-solving graph. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Deduction, Problem Solving
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Simon, Herbert A. – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
This analysis of solutions to the Tower of Hanoi Problem underscores the importance of subject-by-subject analysis of "What is learned" in understanding human behavior in problem-solving situations, and provides a technique for describing subjects' task performance programs in detail. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Scardamalia, Marlene – 1974
Combinatorial and implicative operations were studied with tasks which eliminated many complexities found in Piagetian tasks, but which did not alter the logical strategies required by Piaget's task. Task difficulty in relation to information-processing demands of tasks and processing capacities of subjects at three age levels (8.0-10.1 and…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Byrne, Richard – Cognition, 1977
Planning the menu for a dinner party, which involves problem-solving with a large body of knowledge, is used to study the daily operation of human memory. Verbal protocol analysis, a technique devised to investigate formal problem-solving, is examined theoretically and adapted for analysis of this task. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Homemaking Skills
Danner, Fred W.; Day, Mary Carol – 1975
There is considerable disagreement concerning the age of onset and universality of attainment of Piaget's stage of formal operations. This study examines developmental differences in response to brief prompts in the use of a formal operational approach to the solution of two tasks. The subjects were 10 males and 10 females from each of Grades 5,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Tasks
Simon, Dorothea P. – 1975
This paper analyzes a typical school spelling task in terms of an information processing model of spelling performance. Based on principles embodied in a computer simulation program previously reported (SPEL by Simon and Simon) the model proposed here has been expanded to try to account for many more kinds of student error than were possible with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Merrill, Paul F. – 1971
Several concepts and techniques used to design computer simulation of human performance were employed in developing an information processing approach to task analysis. This new approach is compared and contrasted with Gagne's hierarchical task analysis model. Two conceptual levels of a behavioral objective are identified. One level, referred to…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Behavior Chaining, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes
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Anzai, Yuichiro; Simon, Herbert A. – Psychological Review, 1979
A theory is proposed of the processes which enable a subject to learn while solving a problem. One subject's protocol--including 224 steps and taking 90 minutes--is described. Adequacy of the mechanisms is guaranteed by a computer simulation of the processes in an adaptive production system. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
Hansen, Joe B. – 1972
Ninety-eight undergraduate education majors received a battery of ability tests, measuring general reasoning, associative memory, and trait anxiety and were randomly assigned to three groups--no feedback, feedback, and learner control--for a computer-assisted instruction course on Xenograde systems (an imaginary science). Four state anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Bart, William M.; Mertens, Donna M. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
The hierarchical structure of the formal operational period of Piaget's theory of cognitive development was explored through the application of ordering theoretical methods to a set of data that systematically utilized the various formal operational schemes. Results suggested a common structure underlying task performance. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bart, William M.; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1979
Five Inhelder-Piaget formal operations tasks were analyzed to determine the extent that the formal operational skills they assess were ordered into a stable hierarchy generalizable across samples of subjects. Subjects were 34 collegiate gymnasts (19 males, 15 females), and 22 students (1 male, 21 females) from a university nursing program.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Birch, Leann Lipps – 1975
To investigate developmental differences in timesharing performance, 60 boys, 20 in each of three age groups (7-, 10- and 13-year-olds), performed an auditory matching task and a tracking task alone and concurrently, the latter under two sets of instructions. Decrements produced by concurrent performance were compared for the three age groups.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Tasks
Merrill, M. David – AV Communication Review, 1973
A discussion of research on the use of the task analysis procedures by both content specialists and instructional psychologists in instructional design. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Instructional Design
Guilford, J. P. – 1969
In research conducted "over a period of 20 years" on aptitudes of high level personnel, the purpose was to analyze thinking abilities or processes into their unique components. The approach was through study of individual differences in performance on intellectual tasks varied systematically over broad ranges of psychological functioning.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Factor Analysis
De Bono, Edward – J Creative Behav, 1969
Reprinted from "Value Engineering , Volume I, Number 5, February 1969.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Divergent Thinking
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