PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Long-Term Memory, Availability Heuristic, Problem Solving
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Language (tuesday: problem solving, problems and problem representation, well-structured vs. ill-structured problems. The importance of problem representation (restructuring: common aws in problem solving, analogies can help. Types of problems: well-structured (well de ned, completely speci ed starting conditions, goal state, and method for achieving the goal, geometry proofs. Ill-structured: some aspects are not completely speci ed. Finding the perfect mate: choosing a career, writing a great novel, be happy in life, winning a war. Fix the economy: operators: mental actions that move between states, problem space: whole range of possible states and operators, only some of, problem representation which will lead to goal state. Top-down preconceptions: when we look at a new problem, we tend to encode it in a way consistent, mental set with long term memory. Functional xedness: see an object as having only a xed, familiar function.
