Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.