Quote: the two great stochastic systems are learning and evolution; the unity of the combined system is necessary [»bateG_1979]

Quote: keeping modifier near the modified thing is a property of our minds; not a rule of English [»mitcR_1979]

Quote: spatial orientation, recognition memory, and language use different mentalities; e.g., Piaget's water pouring experiment [»lindO_1992]

Quote: Mac-style user interface from cognitive psychology; combines kinesthetic (mouse), iconic (windows/icons), and symbolic (Hypercard) mentalities [»lindO_1992]

Quote: Bongard's patterns capture the core problems of pattern recognition; e.g., ovals pointing to crosses or small circles [»linhA8_2000]

Quote: the ideas of God and oneself are innate [»descR_1641]

Quote: many social and psychological phenomena exist because we think they do; e.g., marriage, money, trade unions; unlike biology or physics [»searJR_1984]

Quote: in most folk biology classifications, the unique beginner is not named, e.g., "plant"

Quote: dreams and animals deal in opposites without saying so; e.g., showing belly or fighting to affirm friendship [»bateG_1972]

Quote: the lack of simple negatives forces organisms to say the opposite of what they mean [»bateG_1972]

Quote: we like to verify our view of our relationships; e.g., looking out the window when someone says its raining [»bateG_1972]

Quote: discussing the rain acknowledges our kinship without evoking other worlds where kinship may be questionable [»mitcR_1979]

Quote: many students confuse an object's state with mechanisms that affect that state

Quote: define intelligence as the power to quickly find adequate solutions in (what appears to be) an immense search space [»lenaDB1_1991]

Quote: intelligence lies not in the generation of new ideas but in their interpretation and discrimination [»ashbWR_1956]

Quote: intelligence is the ability to figure out a procedure rather than the ability to carry one out [»kugeP9_1979]

Quote: much of the complexity of human behavior derives from the complexity of the task [»cardSK_1983]

Quote: almost every corporal thing develops habits when moved in the one and same manner; to begit it, there needs no more than to begin it [»hobbT_1650, OK]

Quote: language is a habit of speech, initiated by the passions, to share knowledge, opinions, and passions

Quote: emotion is closely tied to its bodily symptoms; the trembling lips of fear, the flushed face of rage [»jameW_1890, OK]

Quote: the behavioral surface for a dog under rage and fear contains a pleat of unlikely behavior that narrows to a point [»zeemEC4_1976]

Quote: the grief of a nation when a leader dies is due to losing one's bulwark against death [»beckE_1973]

Quote: if animals have feelings because their atoms have feelings, there's nowhere you can stand; atoms do not laugh, nor are they skilled in philosophical discourse [»lucr_55]

Quote: feelings and intelligence arise from combinations of particles that are themselves devoid of all sensation

Quote: the advantage of the old over the young is the secret history of our failures [»carrJ4_2001]

Quote: character is a prison, built to deny one's creatureliness [»beckE_1973]

Quote: err and err and err again, but less and less and less [»knutDE7_1989]

Quote: Goethe--achieve goals by tyrannical power or single-mindedness; the later is available to all [»vonmV_1832]

Quote: fitful, capricious action interferes with the natural course of things; no guarantee of progress

Quote: action cycle of execution and evaluation: goal, intention, action sequence and execution; perception, interpretation, evaluation and goal [»normDA_1988]

Quote: the rationality principle: Goals + Task + Operators + Inputs + Knowledge + Process-limits -> Behavior

Quote: people must act without sufficient knowledge

Quote: users want throughput first, will use inappropriate experience, and will avoid new learning; software must take these paradoxes seriously [»carrJM_1987]

Quote: users tend to respond to errors and uncertainties with action; often defer error correction advice; results in a series of mistakes [»carrJM9_1988]

Quote: simulated SmartHelp messages had to be generated on the fly since users were too creative and quick in generating errors and misconceptions [»carrJM9_1988]

Quote: the purpose of exploration is to discover information, so shock while exploring is information instead of punishment [»bateG_1979]

Quote: problem solving requires exploration: no initial state, pre-defined operations, or goal state

Quote: human errors are intrinsic to being human [»parnDL2_1986]

Quote: Principle of Least Effort: people strive to minimize the average rate of work-expenditure they must use to solve immediate problems and probable future problems [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: a person or dynamical system can only minimize or maximize one property; otherwise the problem becomes meaningless and indeterminate; e.g., minimize work or time but not both [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: pretesting is a powerful aid in designing an experiment that uses subjects [»ledgH_1981]

Quote: for user testing, found that on-the-spot recruiting was better than schedules; otherwise many subjects never report [»ledgH_1981]

Quote: all of psychology is based on the activity of neuron nets, i.e., on two-valued logic [»mccuWS_1943]

Quote: the Model Human Processor consists of a perceptual system, cognitive system, and motor system; characterize each component by processor cycle time, memory capacity, decay rate, and code type [»cardSK_1983]

Quote: the cycle time for each processor in the Model Human Processor is on the order of a tenth of a second

Quote: Card, Moran, and Newell summarized existing psychological knowledge through a simple model of the human processor. They use the model to numerically analyzing human-computer interaction [»cardSK_1983]

Quote: Skinner's avoidance of intentional idioms in psychology is too extreme; use intentional terms provisionally and eventually design a mechanism to replace them [»dennDC_1978]

Quote: psychological theory can not rest on intentional terms; otherwise it presupposes the very thing it is explaining

Quote: Skinnerian explanation in terms of stimuli and responses fails to explain novelty and generality [»dennDC_1978]