PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 5: Problem Solving
9 Feb 2019
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Intelligence: the cognitive ability of an individual to learn form experience, reason well, remember important information, and cope with the demands of daily living. Intelligence involves the capacity to learn from experience and adapt. Intelligence involves the ability to perform cognitive tasks. Problem solving ability is a reliable indicator of intelligence: deductive reasoning: use ideas and general information to arrive at specific conclusion. Inductive reasoning: use specific facts to create broader generalizations and theories. Deductive and inductive reasoning guide the scientific method. Arch of knowledge: deductive reasoning: have general idea/theory of the world, use it to design an experiment and collect facts, use inductive reasoning to interpret data, to create general idea/theory about the world. Insight problem: category of problems that test your ability to "think outside the box: creative thinking test. Functional fixedness: our difficulty seeing alternative uses for common objects.
