Problem Solving

In class we discussed the different methods to problem solving and how our thought processes and human nature sometimes get in the way of us being able to find the best solution to a problem. We often  suffer from the inability to look at a problem in a new way, fixation. This could refer to the mental aspect, the way in which you go about solving the problem, mental set. It also could apply to the inability to see the use of an object in a way other than the way it has been used it the past, functional fixedness. Having learned about these natural obstacles to problem solving we now know they exist. In the future when we are trying to solve a difficult problem we cold remember what we learned here in class and apply it, allowing us to solve problems better in the future.