PSYCH207 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chessboard, Niels Bohr, Ultimatum Game
6 Nov 2017
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Chapter 10: thinking and problem solving: what is thinking. Going beyond the information given (bruner, 1957) Complex and high-level skill that fills up gaps in the evidence (bartlett, 1958) Process of searching through a problem space (newell & simon, 1972) What we do when we are in doubt about how to act, what to believe or what to desire (baron, 1994) His method: write down the problem, think very hard, then write down the answer. Mindwandering unintended shift of attention from a task to internal information. Spotlight scatters: scattered spotlight less focus, less-scattered spotlight more focus. Most of our mindwandering is successive (we can do achieve what we think about) We are reasonably good at thinking what we have and what we should not bother getting out of. In practice, mindwandering is an efficient way to leverage. Psychologists focused problem solving in well-defined problems because: easy to present, score and change, do(cid:374)(cid:859)t take (cid:449)eeks o(cid:396) (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths to sol(cid:448)e.
