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I will sketch some ideas that have guided the psychological approaches to problem solving. Traditionally, psychologists have considered the ability to solve problems “one of the most important manifestations of human thinking”. 1 Moreover, “problem” has been defined as a search that starts when we have a goal, but our habitual means are not sufficient to achieve it.
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Gaglio, S., Cardaci, M., Isenhardt, I., Brandt, D., Strina, G. (1999). Panel Summary: Planning and Problem Solving. In: Cantoni, V., Di Gesù, V., Setti, A., Tegolo, D. (eds) Human and Machine Perception 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4809-6_12
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