{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Program and Protocol Analysis on a Mental Imagery Task","authors":[{"name":"George W. Baylor","slug":"george-w-baylor","given":"George W.","family":"Baylor","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This paper presents a LISP 1.5 program and parts of a protocol analysis that model aspects of the behavior on one adult subject (S) solving a set of Guilford's block visualization problems . The model derives from a detailed analysis of S's thinking aloud protocol on four of these problems . Two problem spaces are postulated to account for S's internal representation of the task. Nine operators, evoked by a production system cum goal stack, are used to describe his encoding and problem solving . The program lags the protocol analysis: It respects the two problem spaces but incorporates only five of the nine operators, and these are evoked by hand. The principal problem-solving operators in the image space, Process Block and Tally, both programmed, are described, and the behavior they generate is put in correspondence with, and serves as a set of psychological hypotheses for, S's behavior. Their plausibility rests primarily on the closeness of simulation to S's performance, while their generality has scarcely been tested.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/21","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0021.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/21.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/bibtex/21","volume":{"slug":"1971","title":"Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1971","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/","year":1971,"location":"London, UK","dates":"","editors":"D.C. Cooper","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":21,"pages":{"first":218,"last":236},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}