ABSTRACT
The area of experimental psychology has prospered for more than 100 years and is continuing to do so. With its scientific methods, a steadily increasing number of systematic and robust effects is being discovered. This is especially true for the field of cognitive experimental psychology, in which memory, learning, problem solving, judgment, decision making, text comprehension, and similar topics have been thoroughly investigated. The KIWi model shares many theoretical assumptions and several symbol-processing components with the NETWORK model and UNICOM model. The ELM model is similar to the KIWi model in that it also describes how subjects acquire knowledge about the programming language LISP. The KIWi model assumes that knowledge acquisition is a comprehension-based process. As have seen from the comparisons with the ELM and the knowledge-assessment model, there are fundamental differences among different models, and these fundamental differences can be used to define classes of models.
