GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Confirmation Bias, Board Game, Deductive Reasoning
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Keywords: problem space hypothesis, gestalt, insight, means ends analysis, mental set, functional fixedness, expertise, creativity, newell and simon, anderson, ericsson. Learning goals: theories of problem solving, processes behind problem solving, strategies, cultural differences. Must sometimes violate a strict difference-reduction strategy and go steps backwards identify the ends you want and then figure out the means you will use to reach those ends pro: More likely to check for errors in their thinking. More likely than novices to use the means-ends heuristic effectively. More likely to emphasize the structural similarity between problems: deliberate practice (ericsson) Results: deliberate practice variations accounted for 34% of chess playing performance. Gps is better than humans at remembering what has happened during problem solving. Gps is inferior to humans at planning future moves. Most problems in everyday life are ill-defined. The problem space hypothesis can be illustrated by the tower of hanoi problem.
