ABSTRACT
This section examines the research programme of Simon and colleagues (1978; see also Newell & Simon, 1972; Newell et al., 1958) who have contributed one of the most influential human information-processing accounts of planning within a framework for human problem solving. Simon (1978) characterizes problem solving as an interaction between a participant and a task environment (the name given to the problem as presented by the experimenter). This interaction results in the participant generating a mental representation of the problem which is called the participant’s internal problem space.
