The purpose of this paper is to clarify some basic issues of choice of representation for problems of reasoning about actions. The general problem of rePresentation is concerned with the relationship between different ways of formulating a problem to a problem solving system and the efficiency with which the system can be expected to find a solution to the problem. An understanding of the relat...

In his latest book, Radu J. Bogdan embarks on a quest as ambitious as one can imagine in the sciences of the mind: to explain the developmental (as well as evolutionary) path leading to human intellect, defined as “high-level mental faculties involved in reasoning, deliberate planning, thoughtful communication, reflective problem solving and decision making, art creation, technological innovati...

Taking a broader perspective than the conventional field of teleoperation and telerobotics, this paper proposes the concept of human robot synergism, as a practical approach to carrying out a variety of “intelligent” manipulation tasks whose procedures and environment may not be well anticipated beforehand. Such a human robot synergetic system would be essential not only for transferring human ...

Previous research has found that having a nonspecific goal (NSG) leads to better problem solving and transfer than a specific goal (SG). To distinguish between the various explanations of this effect requires direct evidence showing how a NSG affects a participant’s behavior. Therefore we collected verbal protocols from participants learning to control a linear system consisting of 3 outputs by...

Background & Aims: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional intestinal system disorder defined with specific intestinal symptoms and no organic cause. Since mental problem is one of the main factors in etiology of this syndrome, studying the impact of psychological therapies on IBS seems to be useful. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of problem solving and assertivene...

aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. we believe the aesthetics of management is important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. we propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. in this article we try to discover the role of aesthetic in man...

aim and background: this study seeks the effect of teaching problem solving on self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in adolescents.   methods and materials: in this quasi-experimental study using three group with pre-test and post-test, on hundred sixty students were randomly selected via multi-stage sampling, and were divided into 64 students of experimental group and 62 students of place...