• DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.14
Corpus ID: 15631498

What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception, and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems.

@article{Chronicle2004WhatMA,
  title={What makes an insight problem? The roles of heuristics, goal conception, and solution recoding in knowledge-lean problems.},
  author={E. Chronicle and J. MacGregor and T. Ormerod},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition},
  year={2004},
  volume={30 1},
  pages={
          14-27
        }
}

• E. Chronicle, J. MacGregor, T. Ormerod
• Published 2004
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition

Four experiments investigated transformation problems with insight characteristics. In Experiment 1, performance on a version of the 6-coin problem that had a concrete and visualizable solution followed a hill-climbing heuristic. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the difficulty of a version of the problem that potentially required insight for solution stems from the same hill-climbing heuristic, which creates an implicit conceptual block. Experiment 3 confirmed that the difficulty of the potential… Expand