Problem Solving

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What is a well-defined problem?
They have one correct answer
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What is an ill-defined problem?
They have multiple correct answers
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What are knowledge-lean problems?
Can be solved without prior knowledge
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What are knowledge-rich problems?
Cannot be solved without relevant knowledge
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What is a cognitive miser?
Someone who uses shortcuts to save time/ effort
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What does Gestalt mean?
Whole
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What approach is representational restructuring (restructuring a problem) associated with?
Gestalt
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What is insight?
The point when a problem has been solved
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How is insight increased?
Sleep and incubation
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What is the information processing approach (Newell & Simon, 1970)?
Problems solved via a search and planning process
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What is means end analysis and hill climbing?
Heuristic methods of information processing approach
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What brain area is activated during a problem solving and planning experiment (Kleibeuker et al, 2013)?
Dorsolateral PFC
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What brain area is activated when insight is reached (Kounios, 2006; Qui, 2010)?
No specific sites but gyrus and cingulate are associated (memory and cognitive control)
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What is an analogy?
Using the solution of one problem to guide the solution of a similar problem (knowledge transfer)
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What processes to medical experts use for problem solving?
Global and holistic
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What is framing?
How you frame a problem can influence how it makes sense to you
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What percentage of radiologists fail to detect diseases?
30%
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Do expert chess players have better memories?
No, only for game positions
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What does PFC damage lead to during a tower of Hanoi task (Goel & Grafman, 1995)?
Poor Performance
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Is hill climbing or means end analysis more effective?
Means end analysis
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Who found evidence that sleep increases insight?
Wagner et al (2004)
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Who found evidence that damage to the lateral PFC makes people better at problem solving?
Reverberi et al (2005)
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Who found that pps who spent longer planning did better on the tower of Hanoi task?
Koppenol-Gonzalez et al (2010)
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Who found that the DLPFC was the key area in planning (during a tower of Hanoi task)?
Crescentini et al (2012)
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Who proposed the Duncker's radiation problem?
Gick & Holyoak (1980)
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