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When psychology first emerged as an independent science, the focus was on the mind, but introspective methods yielded unreliable results. The behaviorist focus on overt responses was empirically more sound, yet theorists argued that it provided an incomplete picture of human functioning. Ren...

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  • October 6, 2021
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  • 2021/2022
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  • Mr c. van rooyen
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Cognition and
Language
Turning Thoughts Into Words

Problem Solving

Decision Making

,In the September family, there are five brothers, and each brother has
one sister. If you count Mrs September, how many females are there in
the September family?


Fifteen percent of the People in East London have unlisted telephone
numbers. You select 200 names at random from the East London phone
book. How many of these people can be expected to have unlisted phone
numbers?




Turning
Problem Decision
Thoughts
Solving Making
Into Words

, 3 Basic types of problems:

Problems of inducing structure – where people are required to
discover relations among numbers, words, symbols, or ideas.

Problems of arrangement – where people arrange the parts of a
problem in a way that satisfies some criterion. These types of problems
are often solved by insight, a sudden discovery of the correct solution
following incorrect attempts based primarily on trial and error.

Lastly, problems of transformation – involve carrying out a sequence of
transformations in order to reach a specific goal.



Turning
Problem Decision
Thoughts
Solving Making
Into Words

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