Blog Assignment 3/23

6 Chapter 9 Concepts that we Used Today in Class:
1. Overconfidence-Drier was overconfident today that our solution to the record spinning problem was incorrect. Even though this belief was not correct, he remained confident in it.
2. Belief perseverance- Jason exercised belief perseverance during the nail challenge when I found a completely different solution to the problem. He still claimed that the problem could not be solved this way, even though I had discredited his argument.
3. Fixation-I exhibited fixation today with the nail challenge by turning the board upside down, balancing on the nail's head, and setting the nails on the wood. Once Drier told me that this was not the answer, I was stumped. This was the only perspective that I could see a possible solution to.
4. Heuristic-The puzzle with the different people and the cars could be solved using these thinking strategies.
5. Insight-We all had a moment of insight when Jason showed us how the nail problem could be solved, and we thought that we should have gotten the answer sooner.
6. Mental set-Patrick had the tendency to approach the record problem in a way that he had been able to make things move in the past, by using the rubber band propulsion system.