PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stroop Effect
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Problem solving: everyday experience (getting locked out, problem solve about everything we are going to do, goal directed problem requires a goal. Stage two: generate hypotheses or possible solutions. Stage three: test the solutions, hypothesis, seeking to disconfirm one or more of them. Stage four: evaluate results and if necessary, revise steps 1, 2 & 3. So how do you solve the problem: what are the operations, how do you select these, depends on your preferences and experience/ knowledge and the situation. Skills in problem solving develop over time and experience. A police officer: experience develops schemas and they help to solve specialized classes of problems. Experts and novices are different problem solvers: novices. Novices rely on general problem solving methods. Use working memory versus long-term: experts. Large # of schemas to guide problem solving in their field: development of expertise. Feature detectors (expert neurons) in brain become quicker & stronger. So how do you solve the problem: algorithm.
