. As related by Hintzman (1990), “The common strategy of trying to reason backward from behav- ior to underlying processes (analysis) has drawbacks that become painfully apparent to those who work with simulation mod- els (synthesis). To have one’s hunches about how a simple combination of processes will behave repeatedly dashed by one’s own computer program is a humbling experience that no experimental psychologist should miss” (p. 111). One viewpoi