Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cognitive Load, Problem Solving, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Parts of a problem: a good working definition is that of a gap or barrier between the current state and some goal state. In addition to the goal and current state. Well defined and ill-defined problems and to move closer to the goal state: well defined problems are those which completely specified initial states and goals, well-articulated givens and obstacles, and a specified means of attaining that goals. Ill-defined problems are those of which one or more aspects of the problem are missing or not defined. If there is prior knowledge, this is when they would be good to be recalled: the third stage is the judgement or evaluation stage, tentative solution paths are explored further and may be evaluated for likelihood of success. In many cases, an additional stage called incubation may occur: spreading activation in semantic memory may occur, even though the problem solver is not explicitly thinking about the problem, their brain is working at it.