ABSTRACT
This book offers: Cognitive skills are realized by production rules. Cognitive skills are realized by production rules is a general assertion about the architecture of human cognition. It is limited in its scope only insofar as cognitive skill does not encompass all of cognition. The book describes the concepts that define the production-system framework. Although this indeterminacy is a problem for all cognitive architectures, the book focuses on its manifestation with respect to production systems. The book demonstrates the regularity in human performance and learning under a production-rule analysis. It touches on wider issues related to production systems with production rules: considers issues surrounding the use of intelligent tutors based on production systems; discusses how to build productions in ACT-R; and the concluding, reviews the assumptions of the theory and the prospects for the theory's future development. The book focuses on the computer simulation that more completely corresponds to the theoretical statements.
