GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pliers, Divergent Thinking, Creative Problem-Solving
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The gestalt approach: problem solving as representation and restructuring: success in problem solving is influenced by how it is represented in the person"s mind, restructuring process of changing the problem"s representation. Insight sudden realization of a problem"s solution, associated with restructuring. Subjects working on insight-problems are not very good in predicting how close they are to the answer. Obstacles to problem solving: fixation tendency to focus on a specific characteristic of the problem that keeps from arriving at a solution. Functional fixedness e. g. pliers is usually seen as a tool instead of a pendulum (two- string problem: mental set preconceived notion about how to approach a problem. Modern research on problem solving: the information-processing approach. Each domino covers two squares and they must be of the same color. Using analogies to solve problems: analogical problem solving using the solution to a similar problem to guide solution of a new problem.
