PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Oneword, Problem Solving, Psych

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

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Using and misusing heuristics terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, a particular prototype. Representativeness heuristic judging the likelihood of things or objects in. Availability heuristic this involves judging the probability of events by the. Heuristics strategy for making judgments quickly at the price of occasional. Algorithm methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a readiness with which they come to mind mistakes particular problem. Duncker"s candle problem: using these materials, how would you mount the. Functional fixedness the tendency to perceive only a limited number of uses candle on a bulletin board? for an object. Obstacles to problem solving an analogy way that has been successful in the past. Mental set a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way especially a. Set can sometimes be overcome by working backward from the goal or by finding. Creative thinking sometimes the solution to a problem requires a radical.