31 Aug Solving Problems Response
Automatic and effortful processing is presented. The next section emphasizes that whatever has any chance to be permanently remembered must first be chosen (processed) to be retained for further possible use. Three concepts are very important in this process: meaning, visual encoding, and organizing information. What we encode definitely affects what and how we remember.
- Read Thinking of the textbook by Myers.
- Use Citation- Myers, D. G., & DeWall, C. N. (2014). Exploring psychology in modules: special update for Dsm-5. Worth Pub.
- In-Text citation-(Myers & DeWall, 2014)
- Click on this link for the Tower of Hanoi– https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/towerofhanoi.htmlpuzzle exercise.
- The challenge of this puzzle is to move the tower from the first peg to the third peg, moving only one disk at a time, and never putting a larger disk on a smaller one. Please do this on your own – do not ask others for help and do not look up the answer on the Internet.
- Write a ½ page response on what steps you took to solve the problem.
- How many times did you try before you come up with a solution?
- Record your solution step by step.
- If you did not solve the problem within 30 minutes, record what you did and what you tried.
- Did you experience any evidence of confirmation bias or fixation?
- What about a “Eureka moment”, or a sudden insight?
- What have you learned about yourself as a problem solver?
Support your work with scholarly academic resources, textbooks, or other sources provided. Use of APA format is required.
