Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Modern Research on Problem Solving • 331 only 23 percent in the mental set group used this solution for these problems. Clearly, ...

332 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving a research program that described problem solving as a process that involves search. That is, i ...

This problem is called the Tower of Hanoi problem because of a legend that there are monks in a monastery near Hanoi who are wor ...

334 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving goal would be to move the large disc that is on the left over to the peg on the right. However, ...

(state 7), and we have almost solved the problem! This procedure of setting subgoals and looking slightly ahead often results in ...

336 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving The Acrobat Problem Three circus acrobats developed an amazing routine in which they jumped to ...

We will now consider the mutilated checkerboard problem, which provides another example of how the way a problem is stated can i ...

338 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving adjoining squares, found the problem to be easier to solve. The bread-and-butter condition emph ...

Participant: Maybe it has to do with the words on the page? I haven’t tried any- thing with that. Maybe that’s it. OK, dominos, ...

340 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving Using Analogies to Solve Problems A person is faced with a problem and wonders how to proceed. ...

Using Analogies to Solve Problems • 341 1983) found that only 10 percent of their participants arrived at the correct solution, ...

342 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving difficult of the three steps to achieve. A number of experiments have shown that the most effec ...

Using Analogies to Solve Problems • 343 Once they determined that analogies can help with problem solving, but that hints are re ...

344 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving Fragile-Glass Version (Source and target problems have similar structural features) Problem: A ...

Using Analogies to Solve Problems • 345 Gentner and Goldin-Meadow’s experiment involved a problem in nego- tiation. In the fi rs ...

346 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving during these meetings have been analyzed for statements indicating that analogy is being used t ...

How Experts Solve Problems • 347 to 1,000 patterns for a good player and few or none for a poor or beginning player (Bedard & ...

348 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving EXPERTISE IS ONLY AN ADVANTAGE IN THE EXPERT’S SPECIALTY Although there are many differences be ...

Creative Problem Solving • 349 Divergent thinking can be contrasted with convergent thinking, which is thinking that works towar ...

350 • CHAPTER 12 Problem Solving to be creative. Cognitive psychologist Ronald Finke developed a technique called creative cogni ...