algorithm

Examples of algorithm in the following topics:

• Problem-Solving

  • The way we solve problems can be influenced by algorithms, heuristics, intuition, insight, confirmation bias, and functional fixedness.
  • Algorithms are mental processes which relate to how people understand, diagnose, and solve problems, mediating between a stimulus and response.
  • A mathematical formula is a good example of an algorithm, as it has a straightforward and step-by-step way of being solved.
  • Some of these mental processes include functional fixedness, confirmation bias, insight and intuition phenomenology, heuristics, and algorithms.
  • Examine how algorithms, heuristics, intuition, insight, confirmation bias, and functional fixedness can influence judgment and decision making.

• Problem Solving

  • Two of them, algorithms and heuristics, are of particularly great psychological importance.
  • An algorithm is a series of sets of steps for solving a problem.
  • Additionally, you need to know the algorithm (i.e., the complete set of steps), which is not usually realistic for the problems of daily life.
  • The difference between an algorithm and a heuristic can be summed up in the example of trying to find a Starbucks (or some other national chain) in a city.
  • An algorithm would be a series of steps: "Walk in an increasingly large grid pattern around the city blocks until you find a Starbucks or you have looked at every street."

• Cognitive Psychology

  • Cognitive theory contends that solutions to problems take the form of algorithms, heuristics, or insights.