6 Concepts of Today's Activity

1: Confirmation Bias
I felt confirmation bias on all of the rotations that we did today. It is the tendency to search for info that supports your preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence. I didn't experience it myself but one of my partners, Katie, said "Oh! I saw people do this on a TV show," and that helped us with the idea for finding a solution to the record player. I also experienced this by myself as well, such as when I found a solution to a problem, I was confident that was it, and I blurted it out to my group. It ended up being wrong, but that's beside the point; it goes into the next concept.

2: Fixation
During many of the activities, all of my team members felt the feeling of thinking something is totally right, and when it fails, they were like "oh, well..now what?". Especially in the nail, article, and the record player activities. After realizing what you thought was right was wrong, you felt this sense of not knowing how else to even try solving the problem.

3: Algorithm
During every activity, my group came up with at least one method of solving the solution, whether it was right or not. It wasn't written down on paper or anything and the method was changed while trying everything out. It made processes a lot easier such as the record player and the puzzle.

4:Heuristic
Considering we only had 20 minutes at each station, some quick, mostly wrong methods were put together to try and make the deadline. This was especially true to the puzzle/article. Though we had clues, making quick decisions on what goes where definitely showed.

5: Prototype
Making a mental image on how the activity should look, play out, or sound like made it possible to make methods, algorithms or heuristics, and solve the issue at hand.

6: Insight
Our group, especially Katie, had some sudden thoughts on how the solution should play out. Especially when we were running out of time or when we could recall the solution being on a television show.