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Planning meals: Problem-solving on a real data-base
Byrne, Richard
Cognition, 5, 4, 287-332, Dec 77
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, Memory, Models, Planning, Problem Solving, Task Analysis, Task Performance
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