They [laboratory groups] bypass such questions as how one comes to know that a problem exists, what it does to solution adequacy to be working on several different things concurrently with problem solving, what it's like to go about solving a felt, intuited problem rather than an explicitly stated consensually validated problem which was made visible to all members at a specific point in time.

Karl E. Weick (1971, p. 9), as cited in: Harry L. Davis. "Decision Making within the Household," The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 2, No. 4. (Mar., 1976), pp. 241-260.