PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Problem Solving, Psych, Temporal Lobe
26 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Problem: a situation in which there is an obstacle between a present state and a goal state and it is not immediately obvious how to get around the obstacle. The gestalt approach: problem solving as representation and. For gestalt psychologists, problem solving was about how people represent a problem in their mind, and how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation. Restructuring: the process of changing a problem"s representation. According to the gestalt psychologists, this was the key mechanism of problem solving. Insight: the sudden realization of a problem"s solution. Gestalt psychologists assumed problem solving was based on insight, but modern psychologists question this. Metcalfe and wiebe found that when participants were working on insight problems, they felt farther away from the answer for longer than when working on non-insight problems.
