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What cognitive strategies assist our problem solving, and what obstacles hinder it?

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Answer: The cognitive strategies assisting our problem-solving are

  • Algorithms-step by step
  • Trial and error
  • Heuristics- simplifying

The obstacles that hinder our problem-solving are

  • Confirmation Bias
  • Mental Set

Step-by-step explanation:

Cognition is the mental activity associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating information. Cognitive strategies are a type of learning strategy that learners use in order to learn more successfully.

Algorithms: a systematic procedure that guarantees a correct solution to a problem.

Trial and Error: Involves trying possible solutions & discarding those that are in error until one of them works.

Heuristics: a rule of thumb or cognitive shortcut used for problem-solving.

Confirmation Bias: the tendency to accept information that supports our preconceptions and ignore or distort the contradictory evidence.

Mental Set: the tendency to approach a problem with the mindset that worked previously.

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