PSYC 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Backtracking, Functional Fixedness
10 Apr 2018
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You have been given four short lengths of chain. Your job is to combine these four lengths of chain into one continuous necklace of 12 links with no breaks in the chain. You have the assistance of a jeweler who will break any given link for. The problem: you have only 15 in your wallet. This is a classic example of a situation where means-ends analysis fails us. Deters us from reaching us a solution - one of the problem solving techniques. In order to solve this problem, one must make a first step which seems to take one further away from the goal. Try to solve each of the following anagrams as quickly as you can. Flip to the next slide as soon as you have found the answer. It"s hard to form a new representation for a series of word that already spell a word. Going beyond the information given (bruner, 1957).
