If a person has ‘a problem’ to solve and knows the solution and just has to apply it (retrieve it
from memory and re-act), it is not a problem—it is a task; if a person does not know the solution
and has to create it—this is a problem. Using this language, there are only two situations: (a) one
has to perform a task; or (b) one has to solve a problem by creating a new (for the person)
procedure, i.e. one has to create a brand new (for the one) solution; of course, one must utilize
some of the knowledge previously stored in the memory (we could call this action ‘creative
utilization of previous knowledge’). If a student learned how to perform a task, he or she can
repeat it in the future as many times as this student has to repeat the same task. The key word is
‘the same’. Our brain is a powerful pattern recognition machine. As soon as it recognizes the task,
it retrieves from memory the sequence of the actions, which has to be performed to succeed. If a
brain does not recog…