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Direct linkChronicle, Edward P.; MacGregor, James N.; Ormerod, Thomas C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
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…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Heuristics, Phenomenology, Problem Solving
