PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Functional Fixedness, Soltyrei, Behaviorism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Problem solving-refers to active efforts to discover what must be done to achieve a goal that is not readily attainable. Jim greeno has proposed that problems can be categorized into 3 basic classes: 1. problems of inducing structure-requires people to discover the relationships among numbers, words, symbols or ideas. (e. analogy: merhcent:sell::customer:buy) (e. string problem) 2. problems of arrangements-require people to arrange the parts of a problem in a way that satisfies some criterion. The parts can usually be arranged in many ways, but only one or a few of the arrangements form a solution. (e. anagram- rearrange the letters in each row to make an english word). >arrangement problems are often solved with a burst of insight-> >insight-is the sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based primarily on trial and error (aha moment) 3. problems of transformation-require people to carry out a sequence of transformations in order to reach a specific goal. (e. water jar problem)