PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Problem Solving, Divergent Thinking, Resource Allocation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

Document Summary

Psyc 213 problem solving march 6, 2012. Topic for final 2 classes: autism (examination of the neurodevelopment syndrome of autism with special emphasis placed on understanding the prevailing social cognitive deficit) Problem-solving involves going beyond the given information and transforming it to get an answer to a question. Problem-solving relies on many cognitive processes: attention (attending to the aspects of the problem that are most impt, memory (bringing to mind strategies/techniques that worked in the past, language (understanding and communicating the problem) Long thought to be a unique human ability: e. g. Problem solving cycle: 7 general steps taken while solving problems, problem identification. How was the solution: e. g. grade on the paper, steps are dynamic and often we go back and forth through these steps, not a linear progression. Your strategy in solving often depends on the problem. Two types of problems, depending on whether there is a clear path to the solution: well structured problems.