John Robert Anderson (psychologist)
| John Robert Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 27, 1947 |
| Fields |
Educational psychology Cognitive psychology (mathematics education) |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater |
University of British Columbia (B.A.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | A Stochastic model of sentence memory (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gordon Bower |
| Notable students |
Kenneth Koedinger Neil Heffernan |
| Known for |
Intelligent tutoring systems Cognitive tutors ACT-R Rational analysis |
John Robert Anderson (born August 27, 1947) is a Canadian-born American psychologist. He is currently professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Anderson obtained a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford in 1972. He became an assistant professor at Yale in 1972. He moved to the University of Michigan in 1973 as a Junior Fellow (and married Lynne Reder who was a graduate student there) and returned to Yale in 1976 with tenure. He was promoted to full professor at Yale in 1977 but moved to Carnegie Mellon University in 1978. From 1988 to 1989, he served as president of the Cognitive Science Society. He has elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and has received a series of awards:
In cognitive psychology, John Anderson is widely known for his cognitive architecture ACT-R and rational analysis. He has published many papers on cognitive psychology, including recent criticism of unjustified claims in mathematics education that lack experimental warrant and sometimes (in extreme cases) contradict known findings in cognitive psychology.
He was also an early leader in research on intelligent tutoring systems, such as cognitive tutors, and many of Anderson's former students, such as Kenneth Koedinger and Neil Heffernan, have become leaders in that area.
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