PSYB57H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 notes
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Ill defined problems- don"t have their goals, starting info or steps clearly spelled out: well defined problems are easy to present, they don"t take weeks or months to solve, easy to score, and easy to change. Classic problems and general methods of solution: domain specific problem solving approaches work for only a limited class of problems. Generate and test technique: generating possible solutions and then testing them. Loses effectiveness rapidly when there are many possibilities and when there is no particular guidance for the generation process: can be useful when there aren"t a lot of possibilities to keep track of. Means-end analysis: comparing the goal with the starting point, thinking of possible ways of overcoming the difference and choosing the best one; the selected option may have certain prerequisite conditions. If the preconditions aren"t met then a subgoal is created.
