Harvard Catalyst Profiles

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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.

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


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Problem Solving" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Problem Solving" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 283 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2007 and 2008
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.