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Smith, Kevin A.; Huber, David E.; Vul, Edward – Cognition, 2013
Many important problems require consideration of multiple constraints, such as choosing a job based on salary, location, and responsibilities. We used the Remote Associates Test to study how people solve such multiply-constrained problems by asking participants to make guesses as they came to mind. We evaluated how people generated these guesses…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity Tests, Natural Language Processing, Cues
Fayol, Michel; Thevenot, Catherine – Cognition, 2012
In a first experiment, adults were asked to solve one-digit additions, subtractions and multiplications. When the sign appeared 150 ms before the operands, addition and subtraction were solved faster than when the sign and the operands appeared simultaneously on screen. This priming effect was not observed for multiplication problems. A second…
Descriptors: Priming, Memory, Subtraction, Multiplication
Howe, Mark L.; Garner, Sarah R.; Dewhurst, Stephen A.; Ball, Linden J. – Cognition, 2010
Previous research has suggested that false memories can prime performance on related implicit and explicit memory tasks. The present research examined whether false memories can also be used to prime higher order cognitive processes, namely, insight-based problem solving. Participants were asked to solve a number of compound remote associate task…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Experiments

Aguiar, Adrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2003
Five experiments demonstrated that 6.5-month-olds perseverated in a violation-of-expectation task to examine reasoning about width information in containment events. After watching a familiarization event in which a ball was lowered into a wide container, infants failed to detect the violation when the same ball was lowered into a container half…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Error Patterns, Expectation, Infant Behavior

Byrne, Richard – Cognition, 1977
Planning the menu for a dinner party, which involves problem-solving with a large body of knowledge, is used to study the daily operation of human memory. Verbal protocol analysis, a technique devised to investigate formal problem-solving, is examined theoretically and adapted for analysis of this task. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Homemaking Skills