ABSTRACT
This volume, the ninth in the Carnegie Series on Cognition, prompted a retrospective glance at the first, a collection of papers on problem solving presented in 1965 and published 1966 (Kleinmuntz, 1966). That earlier volume included papers by three of the same authors represented in the present volume (Hayes, Simon, and Newell). In addition, it presented one of de Groot’s early papers on perception in chess, a paper which has become a classic, as evidenced by its frequent citation in this volume. It also included presentation on problem solving by several psychologists from the behavioristic tradition (Gagne, Staats, Skinner, and Goldiamond). In the epilogue I wrote for that volume, it seemed appropriate to contrast the approaches of behavioristic and information-processing psychology, and to conclude, somewhat hesitantly, that information processing psychology offered important ways of advancing “psychology’s long-promised involvement in the detailed study of complex, integrated, nonartificial human behavior.”
