PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prefrontal Cortex, Modus Tollens, Syllogism
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Psych 207 - lecture 10 - thinking, problem solving and reasoning. Problem solving: cognitive process(es) used in transforming starting information into a goal state, using specified means of solution thinking: used to transform/manipulate info. that may be either focused or unfocused focused: clear starting point, has specific goal. Unfocused: unintentionally calling to mind a number of diff. and loosely related ideas/daydreaming introspection: detailed, concurrent, and non judgemental observation of the contents of your consciousness as one works on a problem. Domain-specific problem solving approach: work only for a limited class of problems. Consists of generating possible solutions then testing them. Process in which one thinks of possible solutions (generating) then seeing if those possibilities meets all the criteria (testing) Problems: loses effectiveness very rapidly when there are many possibilities and where there is no particular guidance for the generation process if one doesn"t have a way to keep track of possibilities = real trouble.
