Analogy Approach
Using a solution to a similar, earlier problem to help in solving a new problem.
What is Analogy Approach?
Identify the "ends you want and then figure out the "means" to reach them.
What is Means-End Heuristic?
Choosing the alternative that seems to lead most directly/quickly toward your goal state.
What is Hill-Climbing Heuristic?
Name a creative breakthrough that can happen through analogies.
What is airplane design enhanced through bird analogies?
1. Divide the problems into subproblems.
2. Reducing the difference between each subproblem's initial and goal states.
What is the two components of the means-end heuristic?
How can Hill-Climbing Heuristic be useful?
What is when you do not have enough information about your alternatives because you can see only the immediate next step?
True of False: The analogy approach is most effective when surface features of two problems are similar.
What is False?
True or False: It helps solve problems by breaking them into smaller steps.
What is true?
True of False: The hill climbing heuristic always leads to the best solution.
What is False?
Why do people tend to fail to use the analogy approach effectively?
What is because they focus too much on surface details instead of structural similarities?
Which researcher examined how people solve the Elves-and-Goblins problem?
What is Greeno(1974)?
Name the disadvantages of the Hill-Climbing Heuristic.
What is information is limited, doesn't guarantee goal will be reached, may fail to choose the less direct path with greater long-term benefits, and encourages short-term goals?
Name a real-life situation where you might use an analogy to solve a problem.
What is learning to drive a car by comparing it to riding a bike?
What is one the best-known examples that was devised to account for the way humans use means-end analysis to solve well-devised problems?
What is Computer Simulation?
Give an example of this heuristic.
What is a person hiking up a mountain always takes the steepest path upward, without checking if it’s the best route to the top?