This paper gives a method to determine a person's hypothetical conceptualization of an object -- its breakdown into subassemblies, subsubassemblies, and so on -- from the person's sequence of requests for pieces used in constructing it. A technique is given to determine whether, given a group of conceptualizations, there is a typical one. The hypothesis that assembly instructions presenting a typical conceptualization will yield better structural and functional performance than those presenting a minority one is supported experimentally. Conceptualizations are derived from objects built from memory (and incorrectly) by people who first studied typical or minority instructions. A new distance measure determines how far these conceptualizations are from those presented in the instructions.

Continue on ravetea aide If nacesaa and ldentl by block numbe constructed from the same essay on the development of the atom bomb. The passage sentences were individually typed on index cards, and the four resulting packets were then scrambled. Subjects were undergraduate psychology students at the University of Colorado who received one of the four scrambled orders of sentences. Subjects serially reconstructed the passages using a $]o.tted board.