ABSTRACT
Strategies are ubiquitous in problem solving. Even in novel tasks, participants bring
general strategies to bare while searching for the correct solution. As experience is gained
with a problem, these strategies often are abandoned in favor of strategies that are more
particular to the task (Anzai & Simon, 1979). As the new strategies are discovered and
practiced, solving problems within the task becomes easier and solutions become more
efficient. Eventually, a strategy or set of strategies may be developed that can produce a
correct solution to any problem for a particular task.
