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Problem solving is an interesting area, and there exists a lot of psychological research, most notably, for example, the studies that the Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted with chimpanzees. Most psychologists treat the phenomenon as a ‘mental process’ of ‘problem finding’, ‘problem shaping’, and ‘solution finding’. Every now and then we can find some ‘insight’ thrown into the mix of concepts to explain a feature of the phenomenon, which occurs precisely when psychologists cannot really explain what has happened with their representational models.
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Roth, WM. (2012). Problem Solving. In: Roth, WM. (eds) First-Person Methods. Practice of Research Method, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_11
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