EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Functional Fixedness, Long-Term Memory, Metacognition

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC105
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* using existing knowledge and skills to address an unanswered question or troubling situation. * a situation where you need to reach a goal and must find a solution. * problem solving is opening up new means to do so. * different strategies for solution, different degrees of difficulty. * shunk,2000- well structured and ill (poorly) structured problem solutions. * a schema (scheme)(piaget)= a construct or a procedure. * schemas within schemas- made up of many elements. * overload working memory, have to have staregy. * solving an identical maze a number of times results in an automated schema for that particular maze. * automaticity frees up our conciseness for rapid processing. * to solve math problems-need strategies for basic operation e. g. plus and minus as well as reading skills. * the use of a general problem solving procedure and. * many models but most can be summarised into a 5 stage sequence.