Coping with Novelty and Human Intelligence: The Role of Counterfactual Reasoning

This Final Report is divided into four main sections. In the first section, I describe in some detail a subset of the empirical research I have done with my collaborators under the contract. Rather than attempt to describe every study, I have described selected studies in detail. These studies show some of the range of work we have accomplished during the contract. In the second section, I present a list of the publications that have ensued from 1985 to 1988, as well as publications that are in press. These are the years during which the contract was held. In the third section, I list presentations I have given during the years of the contract. And in the fourth and final section, I give the final budgetary accounting for the contract. Keywords: Intelligence(Humans), Psychrometers, Hypotheses, Psychomotor tests, Reasoning, Aptitudes test, Cognition, Information processing, Experimental psychology.