Read:
Hutchins, Edwin (1995). How a Cockpit remembers its speeds, Cognitive Science, 19, 265-288.
And Chapter 16 "Everyday thinking," in Mayer (the basic text for the class)
Discuss in one or two pages the topic 'How the physical situation may interact with the mental processes used in Problem Solving' using the above sources as references. Other references are always acceptable in addition.

The article is available under my name (Segal) through BISON.
 Click here http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/  for the BISON home page
From the Bison home page you click on  <UB Libraries Catalogue> .
You then click on CONNECT VIA THE WEB;
then click on COURSE RESERVE; In the spot for INSTRUCTOR'S LAST NAME
type in SEGAL, then START SEARCH. This will give you a page identifying the Hutchins article.
Then click on the article's PDF file which is underlined.The article is on reserve for this class and is accessible via the web.