Newell and Simon (1972) also identified the hill-climbing heuristic. Hill climbing involves changing the present state within the problem into one closer to the goal. It is simpler than means–ends analysis and is mostly used when the ...
Other studies of story recall have shown convincingly that particular events are better remembered than others ( Nezworski , Stein , & Trabasso , 1981 ; Omanson , 1982 ; Stein & Glenn , 1979 ) . Virtually all of the key facts about the ...
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In the early 1950s, John McCarthy, a young professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, had an idea. Would it be possible, McCarthy wondered, to program computers to mimic the operation of the human mind? Rather than simply asking the ...
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Glover (2004) arguedthat the inferior parietal lobe playsa crucial role in human motor planning. Through the course of evolution, humans have become very good at using tools and objects, soit isvery important forusto integrate ...
The opposite is the case for Part 2 (it stores the pesticide for Story B; in Story A it protects the hunter's hand). In the learning phase of the study, participants were shown exemplars of each category along with either Story A or ...
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