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- From: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: (Q) Ref on cognitive levels of problem solving
- Date: 7 Sep 1992 16:16:18 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Sender: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim)
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- Summary: Looking for ref's on cognitive levels of problem solving
- Keywords: cognitive levels, problem solving
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- Could someone kindly point me to references (in cognitive
- psychology, artificial intelligence, etc.) that talk about cognitive levels
- of problem solving? I may not be labeling the area of my question really
- well, but I'm looking for references that will support the following
- conjecture:
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- There are at least three levels of human problem solving. I will call them
- associational, causal and "hypo-causal" levels. Roughly, the A-level is where
- rule-based (i.e., "compiled" knowledge) reasoning happens, the C-Level is
- where to resort to when A-level reasoning fails to give an answer and where
- causal reasoning happens such as in these days' qualitative reasoning
- programs, and the HC-Level is where you resort to when even C-level reasoning
- fails to give an answer and where something "mysterious" happens.
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- I hope you get a rough sketch of my questioning context from above
- brief description.
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- Please don't point me to Rosenbloom et al.'s Soar material and J. R.
- Anderson's work, as I already accessed them.
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- Thanks.
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- John
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- P.S. Please reply to me by email, since I don't regularly read this group.
- I'll post the summary at the end of this month.
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- Joung-woo John Kim joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu
- Computer Science Dept.
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
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