Problem Solving

Many common tasks involve problem-solving of some sort: planning - identifying what is needed to achieve some goal,usually under some constraintsscheduling - figuring out a "good" order in which to do thingstrouble-shooting - figuring out what has gone wrongre-planning - figuring out how to recover from what's gone wrong solving puzzles, playing games, The ability to perform such tasks, and to solve the problems that they raise quickly or to produce novel or "insightful" solutions, is generally taken as a key indicator of intelligence. How do we solve these problems?What cognitive machinery is required for competent problem solving?

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