Using the Procedure of Counting to Find an Answer

In performing skills, we use a variety of methods. From following a procedure to retrieving an answer from memory. With creased practice, the memory component becomes dominant for routine situations. Even when we can't get the exact solution from memory, we may find parts of the answer which we can use to solve the problem faster. So this suggests that digging deep has two potential benefits. First, it can provide a strategy to obtain the correct answer when memory or direct experience fails. And second, it can assist in non routine situations where no answer is known.