Strategy representation [[electronic resource] ] : an analysis of planning knowledge / / Andrew S. Gordon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450282203321
• Autore: Gordon Andrew S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, NJ., : L. Erlbaum, 2004
• ISBN: 1-4106-0953-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.2
• Soggetti: Mental representation; Planning; Reasoning (Psychology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-342) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Strategies and Cognition; CHAPTER 2 Strategic Analogies; CHAPTER 3 Representational Requirements; CHAPTER 4 Strategy Representations; CHAPTER 5 Conceptual Index to Strategies; CHAPTER 6 Representational Areas; References; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people recognize across a broad range of real world situations. With a sense of scale that is rarely seen in the cognitive sciences, this book catalogs 372 strategies across 10 different planning domains: business practices, education, object counting, Machiavellian politics, warfare, scientific discovery, personal rela