PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Representativeness Heuristic, Belief Perseverance, Availability Heuristic
9 Oct 2014
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Active efforts to discover what must be done to achieve a goal that is not readily. Problem solving attainable: problem presents itself, plan a potential solution, execute said solution, check results. Ill-defined problem: one of the above is vague or undefined. Irrelevant information people tend to want to incorporate all information into the solution: irrelevant information can distract from the solution, example: in the thompson family, there are 5 brothers, and each brother has one sister. 2: particularly prone to focusing on numerical/quantitative information regardless of whether it is relevant or not. Restrictions that you impose on the solution to a problem that do not need to be imposed: ex: nine-dot problem without lifting your pencil, draw no more than 4 lines that cross through all 9 dots. Solution: you can draw outside the box: problem space the set of possible pathways to a solution considered by the problem solver.
