The University of Chicago Header Logo

Problem Solving

"Problem Solving" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Problem Solving" by people in this website by year, and whether "Problem Solving" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 42 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2011 and 2013
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.