PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Combinatorial Explosion, Face Validity, General Problem Solver
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December 2nd 2015: consciousness tends to be organized into a coherent whole, gestalt switch: a sudden change in the way information is organized. E. g. , the experience you have when an ambiguous bi-stable figure suddenly changes from one stable configuration (the young woman) to the other (the old woman). Can occur in response to verbal material. Insight problem: a problem that we must look at from a different angle before we can see how to solve it. Gestalt switches are characteristic of insight problems. No additional information is required: wertheimer (1959) is often considered the founder of gestalt psychology. Altar window problem: superficial learning interferes with the ability to see what might be obvious to a more na ve person. Productive thinking: thinking based on a grasp of the general principles that apply in the situation at hand. The tendency to think about objects based on the function for which they were designed.
