PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Preconscious, Stroop Effect, Iceberg
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Experts encode information more efficiently chess board, mess the pieces up and possibilities, the experts slope down to the level of novices. Experts employ a forward search through problem space, movies more likely to work backwards. Experts tend to look at symptoms and make diagnoses. Med students tend to diagnose first and then find evidence to substantiate. Are there enough elements to map out: evaluation pull out unimportant, keep the vital, abstraction, predictions. One of the first cognitive investigations of problems solving by analogy was conducted by gick and holyoak (1980) Gick and holyoak (1980: problem 1: a general wishes to capture a fortress located in the center of a country. There are many roads radiating outward from the fortress. Although small groups of men can pass over the roads safely, any large force will detonate the mines. What should the general do: problem 2: imagine that you are a doctor treating a patient with a malignant stomach tumour.
