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17 Complex Problem Solving and Dynamic Decision Making: What Is the Difference?
Abstract Complex Problem Solving (CPS) and Dynamic Decision Making (DDM) are often used as synonymous concepts. In this paper, I will document the similarities between CPS and DDM that emerge from the environments that researchers investigate and from the methodologies they use. However, I will argue that some of the demands and required cognitive processes for general complex problem solving are different from those needed for making decisions in dynamic environments. The distinction between CPS and DDM is of practical and theoretical relevance; it matters for how researchers address the question of people’s complex problem solving in dynamic environments, and it also matters to represent cognitive processes precisely in algorithms that can be translated into a computational form. Generating predictive theories of DDM may be very distinct from computational representations of CPS processes.
