PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Implicit Memory, Frontal Lobe, Pliers
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Difficulties in problem solving: maier and duncker identified the difficulty of functional fixedness: in problem solving, an inability to think of or consider any bit the customary uses for objects and tools. Cognitive neuroscience of analogy and insight: wharton et al. identified brain regions that seem to be associated with the mapping process in analogical reasoning, participants were shown diagrams of geometric shapes. Means-end analysis and the tower of hanoi: the tower of hanoi problem represents a recursive problem, meaning that simpler components are embedded in the more difficult versions. General problem solver: general problem solver (gps): the first serious computer-based model of problem solving, by newell, shaw, and. If the destination peg is clear and the largest disc is free, then move the largest disc to the destination peg. If the largest disc is not free, then set up a subgoal to free it.