Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Problem Solving, Brute-Force Search, Maxima And Minima

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

A gap or barrier between current state and goal state. Anything that makes it not straight forward for you to achieve your goal can be defined as a problem. How to withdraw money from the bank simple. How to invest money wisely at the bank more complex. You can get your money easily, but if you want your money to do something, it"s a much more complex problem. But in both cases there is a barrier. Our initial states are given they are objects, conditions, and constraints (instead of path constraints, these can be constraints on whether or not you know where your initial state is) On chopped the initial state givens are the ingredients, cookware, expertise, etc. In each stage you get a basket of mystery ingredients. In these kinds of shows, the initial state that"s given are the ingredients (everyone has the initial state of: i haven"t made something & i have to make something)