01:830:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Think Aloud Protocol, Mental Representation

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:305
• Professor: Aitkin

Document Summary

Problem: definition of problem, obstacle between present state and goal, no obvious way around obstacle, hard to solve, gestalt, problem. Is insight real or just how people feel: metcalfe and wiebe (1987, insight. Algebra: warmth judgments every 15 seconds influenced speed of completion. Obstacles: functional fixedness, using object same way as always, candle problem, two string problem, using patterns of solutions, mental set, preset idea on how to solve problem, based on past experiences, ability to solve problem. Influenced by previous experience: more fixedness, valid way to solve many problems, statement of problem, how problem is stated affects ability to solve it. Mutilated checkerboard vs: bread and butter, heterosexual marriages, relying on prior experiences, abstractly more fixedness . Information processing: newell and simon, problem space. Rules which specify which moves are allowed and which are not: computer science. Chess and deep blue: means-end analysis, reduce difference between current state and final state, sub-goals.