{"pk":20864,"title":"Representing Problem-Solving Episodes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>The understanding of simple, narrative episodes in which a protagonist successfully realizes a goal through a sequence of actions is studied. In two experiments, subjects rated the acceptability of sentences of the form \"The protagonist does ACT J^ in order that the protagonist could ACT 2\", where ACT 2 and ACT }_ were actions from the episode. Ratings were predicted by (I.e., inversely related to) distance within a narrative representation which organizes actions into sequences (action chains) reflecting aspects of the problem-solving plan employed by the protagonist. Subjects separated action chains that had been interleaved in a text. Mishap, irrelevant, and restorative actions were not incorporated directly into an attempt structure. Corrective actions, undoing the ill effects of mishaps, were incorporated. Further research is suggested.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2s37v4fv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Arthur","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Farley","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""},{"first_name":"Oavid","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"McCarty","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1981-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/20864/galley/10597/download/"}]}