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Individual and age-related differences of complex problem solving in a computer game

Student: Makunina Aleksandra

Supervisor: Alexander Poddiakov

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

<p>Complex problem solving (CPS) is a part of psychology of thinking.</p><p>Throughout the centuries people all other the world had to confront with CPS. This is the integral part of every single human being. Even so ordinary actions like making food, learning at school, working &ndash; are complex tasks. Surely, psychology desperately needed the understanding of the process of &nbsp;CPS. A significant real research works concerning CPS (in contrast to simple problems) begun in the middle of 1970-s. Mankind required new measurements for the assessment of the way of dealing with complex situations.&nbsp; The problem consisted in the fact that the results from simple tests proved to be unuseful in real-life situations. Nowadays we know more about mechanisms of human thinking in the situation of CPS.</p>

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