PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: General Problem Solver, Blind Experiment, Inductive Reasoning
8 Dec 2016
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Many different types of thinking: focused thinking begins with a clear starting point and has a specific goal. Unfocused thinking has a character of daydreaming and unintentionally calling to mind a number of different and loosely related ideas. Creative thinking is a form of unfocused thinking. Reasoning encompasses the cognitive processes we use when we draw inferences from the information given to us. It involves a specific kind of thinking: the kind done in solving certain kinds of puzzles or mysteries. Introspection is the detailed, concurrent, and non judgmental observation of the contents of your consciousness as you work on the problem. The key to explain or justify what you are thinking about, just report it. Ill- defined problems don"t have their goals, don"t take weeks or months to solve, they are easy to score, and they are easy starting information or steps clearly spelled out.
