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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
problem-solving
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of the test questions involve problem-solving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For managers, a blend of fiscal skills and creative problem-solving will be required.
▪ In economics, its use is a blend of two ideas, abstraction and pure problem-solving.
▪ In Science, Engineering and Technology, tutorials are likely to be devoted to problem-solving.
▪ It also puts little stress on those problem-solving skills that are vital to the development of village life.
▪ It is not problem-solving oriented; and very often it has no relevance to the immediate needs of the society.
▪ It relies on textbooks, repetitive problem-solving and drills to gauge what students know.
▪ There one can observe a move from pure method-developing activities to more problem-solving strategies.
▪ They too need to learn the problem-solving, decision-making, teamwork, and interpersonal skills necessary to both team and individual performance.

Usage examples of "problem-solving".

Cognitive developmental psychology has shown that in ontogenesis there are different stages of moral consciousness, stages that can be described in particular as preconventional, conventional, and post-conventional patterns of problem-solving [which we will explain later].

The dialectic of progress can be seen in the fact that with the acquisition of problem-solving abilities new problem situations come to consciousness.

And as they act on this knowledge and begin to organize some schedules and some structures for communication and problem-solving, even more hope emerges.

But the problem-solving strategy is usually limited to “flight or fight.

Instead of rushing from one problem-solving crisis to another, they’re focused on coming up with synergistic springboards to future contribution and fulfillment.

You may also want to use it as a tool to help your family move from a problem-solving to a creative orientation.

In their synergy they create a whole—a powerful, problem-solving framework—that is even greater than the sum of its parts.

Rightly so: Troppmann’s downfall arose from his ability at problem-solving, and with a different approach he might have become a famous novelist or scientist.

This may not be a big problem until they try to solve it and their problem-solving scripts come to the surface.

Study your own marriage challenges and problems to see if they, too, are not fundamentally rooted in conflicting role expectations and compounded by conflicting problem-solving scripts.

The other project involved refining existing techniques for constructing self-modifying programming systems that were capable of evolving their own problem-solving strategies as ascending structures of goals and subgoals.