PSY 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hill Climbing, Probabilistic Logic, Expected Utility Hypothesis
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Lectures since last exam (ch 11-13 + some overarching questions) Every step takes you closer to your goal. No need to think through subgoals: means - end analysis. Also tries to eliminate differences between current state and goal state. But identifies subgoals and works towards the subgoal. Once achieved, select the next subgoal and work towards it. Sometimes you may wind up at local maximum that is not the solution of the problem. Think mountain climbing (can find a different route; up, down, sideways, not straight up) There are 3 missionaries and 3 cannibals on one side of river and they need to get to the other side. The boat can only carry 2 ppl at a time. There can never be more cannibals than missionaries in one location (or they will eat them) Subgoal hint = 3 cannibals across the river without the boat. >>bigger problems need subgoals due to limited cognitive load/ram.
