- Title
- A proposed universal model of problem solving for design, science and cognate fields
- Creator
- Hooker, Cliff
- Relation
- New Ideas in Psychology Vol. 47, Issue December 2017, p. 41-48
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.05.001
- Publisher
- Pergamon Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- A modestly generic, innovative, problem solving process with roots in the study of design and scientific research problem solving is presented and motivated. It is argued to be the shared core process of all problem solving. At its heart is a recognition of five foci or nodes of change vital to the process (changes in problem and solution formulation, method, constraints, and partial solution proposals) together with a bootstrap marked by the formation of higher order knowledge about problem solving in the domain in tandem with the solving of specific problems, the essential feature of all learned improvement. None of these elements is entirely original, but the way they are made explicit and developed (rather than folded into fewer, more abstract, boxes) is argued to provide fresh understanding of the organisation and power of the process to deal with complex practical problems.
- Subject
- problem solving; design; scientific research; self-directed anticipative learning; cognitive science; cognitive psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354483
- Identifier
- uon:31280
- Identifier
- ISSN:0732-118X
- Language
- eng
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