This model, which is based on memory and perceptual-motor modules, is more focused on human capacities than the machine AI approach of the rival Soar model. For 10 points each:
[10h] What influential cognitive architecture model was developed by John Anderson as a general model of human cognitive behavior?
ANSWER: ACT-R (“act R”) [or Adaptive Control of Thought—Rational]
[10m] Both Anderson’s ACT-R and John Laird’s Soar were developed at this university in the eastern US, whose influential multidisciplinary computer science department was co-founded in the 1960s by AI pioneer Allen Newell.
ANSWER: Carnegie Mellon University [accept CMU or Carnegie Institute of Technology]
[10e] Another founding professor of CMU’s CS department was this multidisciplinary scholar, whose work with bounded rationality and satisficing made him the first non-economist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
ANSWER: Herbert Simon [or Herbert Alexander Simon]
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