PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Functional Fixedness
12 Jul 2018
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Tech(cid:305)i(cid:347)ues (cid:265)o(cid:348) solvi(cid:305)(cid:266) p(cid:348)oble(cid:304)s; obstacles to solvi(cid:305)(cid:266) p(cid:348)oble(cid:304)s. Breaking problems into subgoals restructuring the problem working backward from the goal transferring an effective strategy from an analogous situation. How a person thinks about the problem can help or hinder the person"s ability to find solutions. Organization of subgoals: identifying people"s steps in solving problems. Changing representations to overcome obstacles : revising a mental rep to overcome an obstacle. Restructuring: representing the problem in a novel way. A new view reveals a new solution that wasn"t visible before. Mental sets: previous strategies (thinking back to how we"ve solved similar problems. Functional fixedness: having fixed ideas about the typical functions of objects. To overcome this: reinterpret an object"s potential function (ex: candle and box of tacks) Algorithm guideline that if followed correctly will always yield the correct answer.
