PSYCH207 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Simon Effect, Long-Term Memory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Jonathan Fugelsang

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Two examples: they highlight the broad range of tasks the may be subsumed under the title of thinking. Types of problems: well-defined problem (eg. rubix cube, chess, clear goal, beginning and end, rules. Four domain general problem solving techniques: 1. Goal in life is to become an opp take police foundations, then volunteer, then work on fitness, apply! Initial state, intermediate states, operators (permissible moves, rules to follow along the way), goal state. 3d object: most people constrain themselves to creating the four triangles in a, faulty assumptions hinder successful problem solving. Functional fixedness: adoption of a rigid mental set toward an object, string problem: the string problem the screwdriver needs to be attached to one of the strings and swung like a pendulum. Reasoning: deductive reasoning, information goes from general specific, eg. All college students like pizza terry is a college student therefor, terry likes pizza: final conclusion follows from initial premises, many types of deductive reasoning, 1.