Week 1 Outline
- Course overview
- Working with Puzzles
- What actions may be performed on the puzzle?
- What are some strategies for solving the puzzle?
- Is there a recipe (i.e. algorithm) for solving the problem?
- What mental representations might people have and use
when solving the puzzle?
- What makes the problem hard or easy?
- Review course objectives with respect to puzzles
- Online forum is posted on D2L
- Exercise on mental models
- Discuss readings for next week
- Summary is due Monday April 4 at class time
- Summary covers Johnson-Laird's article on Mental Models
and NYTimes article on what people know about what people
know
- Discuss first small project (with
Eliza)