PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Celery, Cognitive Psychology
22 Jul 2016
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In the previous section, we provided some definitions about what we really mean by problem solving and thinking. In this section, what we"re going to be doing now is talk about some general problem solv ing techniques. What we mean by general problem solving techniques is techniques that could work for a variety of different classes of problems. This can be contrasted with domain - specif ic problem solving techniques t hose that might only work with spec ific types of problems. In this module, we"re going to talk about four different domain - general problem solving techniques: the generate and test technique, means - ends analysis, working backwards, and reasoning by analogy. First, we"ll talk about the ge nerate and test technique. As the name suggests, the generate and test technique involves we generate a number of potential solutions and then test to see if those solutions fit.
