PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Wine Bottle, Schizoaffective Disorder, Chess Title
9 Apr 2017
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The gestalt approach: problem solving as representation & restructuring. Occurs when here is an obstacle between a present state & a goal & it is not immediately obvious how to get around the obstacle. Problem solving, for the gestalt psychologists, was about: how people represent a problem in their mind , how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation. Fixation: people"s tendency to focus on a specific characteristic of the problem that keeps them from arriving at a solution. Functional fixedness: occurs when ideas a person has about an object"s function inhibit the person"s ability to use the object for a different function. Asked subjects to use various objects to complete a task (matches, candles, match box, & pins; asked to mount candle on corkboard so it will burn without dropping wax on floor) Subjects" task was to tie together 2 strings hanging from ceiling.
