PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Gomoku, General Problem Solver, Evaluation Function
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Gestalt switch: a sudden change in the way information is organized. Insight problem: a problem that we must look at from a different angle before we can see how to solve it. Productive thinking: thinking based on a grasp of the general principles that apply to the situation at hand. Reproductive thinking/structurally blind: reproducing productive thinking in a situation that is not perfectly/approximately fit to use that thinking. When you know a little and get fixated in your thought pattern. Analyses of the situation (by duncker): determining what function that objects in the situation has and how they can be used to solve the problem. The insight required to complete this task is the knowledge that to connect the dots, the lines must extend beyond the box. Two researchers, weisberg and alba, told participants to draw outside the box and.
