Dörner Dietrich, Funke Joachim
Department of Psychology, University of BambergBamberg, Germany.
Department of Psychology, Heidelberg UniversityHeidelberg, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2017 Jul 11;8:1153. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01153. eCollection 2017.
Computer-simulated scenarios have been part of psychological research on problem solving for more than 40 years. The shift in emphasis from simple toy problems to complex, more real-life oriented problems has been accompanied by discussions about the best ways to assess the process of solving complex problems. Psychometric issues such as reliable assessments and addressing correlations with other instruments have been in the foreground of these discussions and have left the content validity of complex problem solving in the background. In this paper, we return the focus to content issues and address the important features that define complex problems.
40多年来,计算机模拟场景一直是解决问题的心理学研究的一部分。从简单的玩具问题到复杂的、更面向现实生活的问题,重点的转变伴随着关于评估解决复杂问题过程的最佳方法的讨论。诸如可靠评估以及与其他工具的相关性等心理测量问题一直是这些讨论的焦点,而复杂问题解决的内容效度则被置于次要地位。在本文中,我们将重点重新放回内容问题上,并探讨定义复杂问题的重要特征。