Essential Questions: Week 3

Dewey and Wallas (2012, p.27). Dewey thought the problem solving process included five steps:          1)   A difficulty is felt          2)   The difficulty is located and defined          3)   Possible solutions are considered          4)   Consequences of these solutions are weighed          5)   One solution is accepted Wallas thought it included four steps:          1)   Preparation          2)   Incubation          3)   Illumination          4)   Verification

The Osborn-Parnes Model (p. 38). Osborn developed the creative problem-solving (CPS) model in 1963. The processes were split into six stages:          1)   Mess-finding          2)   Data-Finding          3)   Problem-Finding          4)   Idea-Finding          5)   Solution-Finding          6)   Acceptance-Finding

Problem Finding Models (pp. 29-37) Mackworth believed problem finding is more important than problem solving. Getzels explained three problem situations.   -       Type I: Arriving at a problem by using a particular means (equations). -       Type II: Trying to discover the way to solve a problem. -       Type III: Searching and finding a problem. “Csikszentmialyi and Sawyer (1993) proposed that the creative process varies in presented and discovered problems” (2010, p. 31).