PSYCH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Analogy, Functional Fixedness, Behaviorism
17 Feb 2018
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The general wants to capture a fortress but if his whole army passes over a road at once it will detonate. Analogies are commonly used strategy in problem solving. Relationship b/t 2 similar situations, problems, or concepts. The base is applied to the target. Strong & weak methods on a continuum. Encoding (representation building) of the target problem. Retrieval of an appropriate analog (or base) from ltm. Mapping the base to the target to find corresponding elements. Transfer of knowledge from the base to the target. Transfer/no hint - read/remember military problem, later solve radiation problem. Transfer/hint - read/remember military, get hint, solve radiation. Hint = in solving problem, you may find that one of the stories you read before will give you a hint for solving the radiation problem. Transfer participants knew about the military problem; control participants did not. Days later, all were given the radiation problem to solve. No memory: ~10% solved the radiation problem.
