PSYC 3440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Task Analysis, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3440
• Professor: Caron Bell

Document Summary

Are careful examinations of problems, intended to identify the processes needed to solve them. In situations in which people cannot solve problems efficiently, task analyses can suggest places where they might have difficultly and what the source of difficulty might be. Involves identifying the critical information in a situation and using it to build an internal representation of the situation. Children often fail to encode important features of a task because they don"t know what the important features are, they don"t understand, or they don"t know how to encode them efficiently. To solve problem, people construct mental models of the task and what they need to do to solve it. Model accurately represents the structure of the problem. When the model"s structure parallels that of the situation depicted in the problem, people understand, otherwise they don"t understand (although they may be able to use another method to remember ex: memorizing)