Term Paper: Due December 10, 1998.

Five to ten pages. Use at least two references and follow APA style for identifying the sources of your information. Include a citation list called References at the end of your paper, again following APA style. Here are three possible frames for your term paper. You may email me with other possibilities.

1. Discuss problem solving in some domain of your choosing. Include some examples of problems; identify the problem space(s). Discuss the initial conditions that are likely to prevail. Discuss whether the problems can be seen as well defined, or ill defined, and whether they are solvable by convergent or divergent processes. Discuss something about what the problem-solver may need to know in order to be relatively successful in solving the problem.

2. Identify a domain (or an expert in a domain) and discuss some of the differences between novice and expert performance in the domain. Identify some of the factors or issues that are involved in the development of expertise in that domain (or for that person).

3. Consider two or more domains of expertise. Discuss from a cognitive or analytic perspective what it is that differentiates experts in one of the domains from experts in the other domain(s). What about their histories are similar and different? What conclusions might you draw from the comparison?