-How what I have learned of this topic can be applied in my own life or in the lives of others close to me?
Answer: Nowadays communication is a necessity to express ourselves and tell our ideas and what we feel. Although this topic has a lot of
theory, it can help to take care more of my brain to try to avoid disease such as Broca’s Aphasia and Wernicke’s Aphasia. Also lets me to understand more different cultures and how we interact with each one depending only in a simple aspect that is language acquisition and how the capacity and amount of vocabulary in a language affects the environment of each culture. Understand different cultures let people to know more about the world and understand better why some situations are allowed when we travel or how to behave correctly in other countries.
2. Obstacles:
Obstacles present in different situations and can give us some problems that interrupt to see the solutions. Also problem solving is a complex process where obstacles can arise, understand them can help to avoid them and overcome them. One common problem is fixation, is the inability to see a problem in a fresh and different way, specially don’t use strategies to solve something, be happy with old and comfortable processes. As a result fixation doesn’t let people to go out of the limits and have other creative thinking without boundaries. Some types of categories for obstacles are:
-Functional Fixedness: Is the inability to see other functions of an object beyond its typical purpose. In an experiment Karl Ducker demonstrated how a box, tacks and candle can be used to carry the candle in a wall and have it like cabinet. Importantly it’s good to take breaks and later you are relaxed to find new solutions.