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 } }
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
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