The Fourteenth Annual CMU-Pitt Psychology Conference
June 14, 1996
Adamson Wing, Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University


9:00 Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:15 Opening Address Dr. Sharon Carver, Carnegie Mellon University

9:30 Paper Session I: Problem Solving

What is a group to do? The (mostly) costs and (sometimes) benefits of group problem solving
Steve Fiore, University of Pittsburgh

Progress toward the ACT-R mode of learning from the Stat Lady descriptive statistics tutor
Kevin Gluck, Carnegie Mellon University

The cost of experience: Expertise and creative problem solving
Jennifer Wiley, University of Pittsburgh

Learning rules from examples
Steve Blessing, Carnegie Mellon University

10:50 Coffee Break

11:00 Paper Session II

Human causal discovery from observational data: A Bayesian networks approach
Ahmad Hashem, University of Pittsburgh

Over-involvement in other people's problems: Exploring the link between unmitigated communion and distress
Heidi Fritz, Carnegie Mellon University

Recovered memories of non-abuse autobiographical experiences
Zara Ambadar, University of Pittsburgh

12:00 Luncheon and Poster Session

Posters will be open for viewing throughout the lunch hour. Presenters will be at their posters for questions and comments from 1-1:30.

Use of rehearsal and accuracy of self-reported strategy use in young children
Bethany Rittle Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University

The effects of counterfactual thinking on distress and exam performance: A longitudinal study
Tonya Sieverding, Carnegie Mellon University

1:50 Paper Session III: Vision

Systematicity, semantics and optic aphasia: A parallel distributed processing approach
Sean McGuire, Carnegie Mellon University

Evolution, computation, representation, realism, and more
Mark Pimm-Smith, University of Pittsburgh

A PDP model of sensory localization
Matt Botvinick, Carnegie Mellon University

2:50 Short Break

3:00 Paper Session IV: Explanation

The role of self-explanation in adapting as well as transferring a solution procedure
Bob Ryan, University of Pittsburgh

Transitions in children's explanations for economic events
Doug Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University

Explaining how social interaction facilitates individual learning
Sheila Haley Wathen, University of Pittsburgh

4:00 Closing Remarks Dr. Lauren Resnick, University of Pittsburgh

4:30 Post-conference party at Kevin Gluck's house, 5260 Forbes Avenue adjacent to CMU Campus.