Some Terms, Concepts and Questions
 Productive Thinking
 Reproductive Thinking
What are some of the reasons for proposing this distinction?
Problem Representation
 Alternatives and Choice
 Shift or Change of Representation

What determines these choices?

What is the relation between Choice and Bias?

 Problem Decomposition
 Problem Representation
 Problem Constraints
 Subproblem Dependencies

What makes a problem difficult?

Where do problem decompositions come from?

Constraint Propagation
 Dependence
 Independence
 Consistency
How is knowledge incorporated into this procedure?

Productive Thinking...the Gestalt Emphasis

 

 © Charles F. Schmidt