PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Sled, Functional Fixedness, Chessboard

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Nathaniel Barr

Document Summary

Thinking: focused thinking (goal based, problem solving, unfocused thinking (day dreaming, unintentional) Implicit (fast) evolved early and automatic and explicit systems (slower) evolved late, conscious. Well defined have beginning and an end and have guidelines or rules. It"s the way you work not with what problem specifically: generate and test generate a number of solutions and then test the solutions. Useful if there are a limited number of possibilities. Problematic if there are too many possibilities or can"t keep track of them: means end - problem space: try to reduce the difference between the initial state and the goal state. Involves generating a goal and then sub goals (each intermediate state) Initial state conditions at beginning of problem. Goals state condition at the end of problem. Intermediate states various conditions that exist along pathways between the initial and goal state. And look at what when right and do it again etc: reasoning by analogy - ex.