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2002
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Journal Article
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problem solving, insight problem, experiment, Gestalt psychology, Gestalt theory
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Psychology
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English
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103-417-212
(Last edited on
2005/07/02 01:16:41 GMT-6)
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This paper reports two experiments that investigated performance on a novel insight problem, the eight-coin problem. We hypothesized that participants would make certain initial moves (“strategic moves”), that seemed to make progress according to the problem instructions, but that nonetheless would guarantee failure to solve. Experiment 1 manipulated the starting state of the problem and showed that overall solution rates were lower when such strategic moves were available than when they were not available. Experiment 2 showed that failure to capitalize upon salient visual hints about the correct first move was also associated with the availability of strategic moves in the starting state of the problem. The results are interpreted in terms of an information-processing framework previously applied to the nine-dot problem, and generalized here to a new class of insight
problems (which includes the present eight-coin problem). We argue that, in addition to the operation of inappropriate constraints, a full account of insight problem-solving must incorporate a dynamic that steers solution-seeking activity towards the constraints.
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