PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Problem Solving, Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Groot

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Problem solving is the process through which you figure out how to reach your goals, staring from your current state. In all cases of problem solving the point is to choose the best path for you to get from your starting point to your target. Problem solving begins with a initial state which is knowledge you already have. You are working towards a goal state. To move from the initial state to the goal state you use your operators which are the tools or actions that can change the current state. In addition to this along the path there will be path constraints which will rule out some options or solutions: these could be lack of money, transport, time etc. Each state you reach in quest to achieve the goal state can be mapped together in a kind of tree.