Psychology / Unit 7 Psych 0775 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Means-End Analysis
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The idea
Means-end analysis solves a problem by repeatedly identifying the difference between the current and goal states and reducing it.
In practice
One problem — moving apartments in three weeks with a fixed budget — solved the whole way through: goal state specified, current state specified, largest difference identified, subgoal created, and the loop run again on the subgoal. Includes the pass where a subgoal turns out to conflict with the budget and the analysis restarts one level up.
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