Cognitive Flexibility Theory
Cognitive Flexibility Theory is a 30 year old learning theory that focuses on the question“how do experts deal with novelty?” . It's one thing to learn to to a certain thing to perfection, but how do you learn to produce new things?
4 key insights of CFT:
- CFT is Concerned With Ill-Structured Domains
- In Ill-Structured Domains, Cases Are As If Not More Important Than Concepts
- Experts construct a temporary schema on the fly, by combining fragments of previous cases.
- Experts an ‘adaptive worldview’: meaning that they do not think there is one root cause as explanation for a particular event
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