PSY-P 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: African Grey Parrot, Availability Heuristic, Functional Fixedness
21 Feb 2017
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A mental category that is formed as a result of everyday experience. Shake, smell of popcorn, etc: what is problem solving, what is trial and error thinking? strategy of trial and error involves actually trying a variety of solutions and eliminating those that do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork. Know the different types of heuristics. not guaranteed to solve a given problem, they tend to simplify problem solving because they let you reduce the number of possible solutions. With a more limited range of solutions, you can use trial and error to eventually arrive at the correct one. In this way, heuristics may serve an adaptive purpose by allowing us to use patterns of information to (gigerenzer & goldstein, 2011). Subgoal: as you solve each sub problem, you move closer to solving the larger problem ex) writing a term paper chosing topic, locating info, organizing info. Means coming to a conclusion or making a judgment w/o conscious awareness of the thought process involved.
