Wall Maze

Casey goes to an amusement park with her classmates from psychology and is put in a maze. They blindfold her and spin her until she loses all sense of direction, then they take off the blindfold and she has to try and make her way out of the giant wall maze. There are many factors that Casey will use that will either assist or impede her efforts to exit the maze. Some of factors are top-down processing, functional fixedness, means-end analysis, confirmational bias and bottom-up processing. Top-down processing is when our brain uses information we already know and that has been brought to us by at least one of our sensory systems. This is a factor that can assist Casey in finding her way out of the maze. Due to the fact that she has knowledge and expectations of what the maze is like, this will allows her
If this maze happens to be like any other ordinary maze that Casey has been to, then this factor can help her find her way out. This is possible because she already has an idea of how to get out of the maze based off the previous mazes she has been on. However, if this isn’t like the other mazes that she has been to, this may negatively impact her strategy of escaping the maze, thus making it more difficult for her. Means-end analysis is another one of the factors that can be useful to finding her way out of the maze. Means-end analysis can be described as foreseeing the end goal or the or end result and working backwards and creating a strategy to achieve it. In this case the end goal if for Casey to exit the maze. With that in mind, she can think of a strategy to find the best way out, using the previous factors, top-down processing and functional fixedness. She will use the knowledge that she already has and the knowledge she just learned to come up with a plan to escape the