PSY 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Problem Solving, Functional Fixedness, Chernobyl Disaster
2 Jul 2019
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Buying a car, choosing a location (to live, to study) Blurry distinctions between problem solving", reasoning" and. You have a goal, and there is an obstacle between you and the goal. You want to own a dog, but you don"t have a dog. You want to attend graduate school, but you"re not currently in graduate school. Problem solving can be thought of as a search. As if you were navigating a maze. The set of all states that can be reached in solving a problem. Sultan the monkey used boxes to make a pathway in order to get a banana that he wanted. Actions organized toward goal of getting food. Sultan discovered actions that transformed a problem state. The initial state, goal state, and operators available to you are into another. Solving an anagram: initial state: vince goti, goal state: any word, operators: rearranging letters. The initial state, goal state and/or operators available to you are poorly understood.
