Journal article
A process model for Missionaries-Cannibals and other river-crossing problems
Cognitive psychology, v 9(4), pp 412-440
01 Jan 1977
Abstract
We extend a model originally developed by
Atwood and Polson (1976) for the water jug task to four isomorphs of the Missionaries-Cannibals problem. Our results show that variation in cover story produced no differences in number of legal moves to solution, but caused large differences in illegal moves. A three-stage process model incorporating means-ends heuristics, assumptions about the utilization of memory, and an illegal move-detection process is able to account for both legal and illegal move data from all four versions of the problem.
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- Title
- A process model for Missionaries-Cannibals and other river-crossing problems
- Creators
- Robin Jeffries - University of Colorado SystemPeter G. Polson - University of Colorado SystemLydia Razran - University of Colorado SystemMichael E. Atwood - System Science Applications
- Publication Details
- Cognitive psychology, v 9(4), pp 412-440
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Computing and Informatics; [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1977DZ04600002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0008186810
- Other Identifier
- 991021868114204721