Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The basic procedures for solving problems.
- Some basic ways in which people might struggle with solving problems.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Summarize complex concepts involved in thinking and problem solving into simpler, but still accurate, terms.
- Solve multistep problems that reveal common problem-solving errors, analyzing the data relative to the research presented in the text.
- Analyze a text for hierarchies in structure and content to demonstrate understanding of how concept hierarchies work in a real-world example.
- Propose a plan to combat errors in thinking and problem solving in a particular circumstance that synthesizes the literature on these errors.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There is a fundamental cognitive structure of thinking.
- There are basic processes involved in thinking and solving problems.
- There are major cognitive obstacles for accurate thinking and problem solving and ways to combat them.
Vocabulary
- concept
- prototype
- schema
- algorithm
- heuristic
- availability heuristic
- representativeness heuristic
- insight
- confirmation bias
- fixation
- mental set
- functional fixedness
- overconfidence
- framing
- belief bias
- belief perseverance
