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Osman, Magda – Cognitive Science, 2008
This study discusses findings that replicate and extend the original work of Burns and Vollmeyer (2002), which showed that performance in problem-solving tasks was more accurate when people were engaged in a non-specific goal than in a specific goal. The main innovation here was to examine the goal specificity effect under both observation-based…
Descriptors: Observation, Problem Solving, Goal Orientation, Learning Processes