Knowledge and Problem-Solving KNOWLEDGE AND PROBLEMSOLVING

A critical review of selected topics

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between problemsolving capabilities and knowledge. The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental tenets of both the realm of problemsolving and that of the ways in which the mind, as an element of both being and body, absorbs and transmits knowledge, and then to discuss, with appropriate reference to selected authoritative sources, the nexus of the mind's product, knowledge, and the uses to which one may put it with reference to resolving contradictions or problems one encounters.

A number of theories of the relationship between mind and body on one hand, and between mind and mental activity which may be translated into somatic action on the other. HampdenTurner's view of the nexus between mind and body appears to be that it implies the connection between knowledge and problemsolving. In this regard, he places the processes of the mind on a gradually expanding range of mental hierarchy, in which at the first level the mind functions as a simple perceptual biological organ and by the ninth level, having integrated biology with psychology, it embraces a full range of psychobiological and psychosocial capabilities that allow it to extend into the external world of culture and myth. The approach is frankly imagistic, to the degree that HampdenTurner sees the mind as capable of