PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 3 Women, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 308
• Professor: Dana Williams

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They will ill contain all of the givens of the problem as well as the relationship: write it down, draw a graph or diagram. Buddhist-monk problem: hierarchal tree - branching diagrams (probability diagrams) Use when the givens of the problem are broken down into categories: manipulate models if you need a lot of working memory (time consuming) To solve a problem you may need to change the way you are representing your problem (not always doing what your good at. Problem solving strategies: means-ends analysis need to take a detour or break a problem down into smaller ones. List all the sub-goals and select the most promising. Examples: writing an outline when writing an essay, planning: working backwards mazes, when there are many ways to start but only one end-point. There are fewer paths leading from the goal than there are from the start: simpli cation when a problem is abstract, complex or contains information irrelevant to the solution.