PSL440Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Thalamus, Gamemaster, Wason Selection Task
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Thinking is the process of mentally representing the aspects of the world and then transforming those representations to new representations that can prove useful to our goals. Thinking is often a conscious process and we are aware of the process of transforming mental representations and we get a chance to reflect on the thoughts. Problem solving is that goal-directed activity; involving the application of cognitive processes to overcome the obstacles and achieve a goal. Reasoning involves the cognitive processes that we use to make inferences from knowledge and draw conclusions. Problem is a situation where there is no apparent, standard or routine way of reaching a goal. Often there is difficulty in the pathway to the goal that has to be overcome. Problem solving requires surmounting obstacles to achieve a goal. Routine situations with routine answers are not considered problems. There must be novel or non-standard solution that the problem solver must discover.
