PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Functional Fixedness
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Barriers to effective problem solving: focusing on irrelevant information, functional fixedness, mental sets. Functional fixedness tendency to perceive an item in terms of its most common use. Unnecessary constraints effective problem solving requires specifying all the constraints governing a problem without assuming any constraints that don"t exist. Problem space a spatial metaphor used to describe the process of problem solving. The set of possible pathways to a solution considered by the problem solver: trial & error, algorithms. A methodical, step-by-step procedure for trying all possible alternatives in search for a solution to a problem: heuristics. Guiding principle or rule of thumb used in solving problems of making decisions: forming sub-goals, searching for analogies, changing the representation of a problem, working backwards. Problems can be represented in many different ways. How you represent it: e. g. list, table, equation, graph, matrix, etc.
