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A Cognitive Procedure for Representation Change in Verbal Insight Problems
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Patrick, John; Ahmed, Afia; Smy, Victoria; Seeby, Helen; Sambrooks, Katie – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The aim of this study was to develop a novel cognitive procedure for operationalizing how the re-encoding and constraint relaxation, suggested by representational change theory (RCT) (Ohlsson, 1992, 2011), can effect representational change in verbal insight problem solving, thus circumventing the constraints imposed by past experience. Some…
Descriptors: Verbal Learning, Problem Solving, Cues, Cognitive Processes
Promoting Insightful Problem Solving.
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Ansburg, Pamela I.; Dominowski, Roger L. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2000
This study assessed whether insightful problem solving could be trained, specifically whether solutions to a heterogeneous set of verbal insight problems could be promoted using a training scheme that emphasizes application of mechanisms that underlie the restructuring process. Facilitation effects in five experiments with college students ranged…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
A Study of the Conditions Influencing Analogical Problem Solving.
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Yang, Chu-Ling; Wedman, John F. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1993
This study investigated conditions for optimizing college students' analogical problem solving. Students given pictorial (not verbal) representations of solutions to source problems were better problem solvers, as were students given a longer time. Students who derived personal solution principles to source problems were not superior to students…
Descriptors: Analogy, College Students, Higher Education, Nonverbal Learning
TRANSFER THROUGH VERBAL CUEING IN CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION.
KEISLAR, E.R.; WITTROCK, M.C. – 1964
VERBAL CUEING UNDER CONDITIONS COMPARABLE TO THE CLASSROOM WAS STUDIED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESES THAT THE SPECIFICITY OF VERBAL CUES DURING TRAINING IS INVERSELY RELATED TO BREADTH OF TRANSFER OF THE ABILITY TO DISCOVER A PROBLEM SOLUTION IN THE ABSENCE OF CUES. THREE DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT, EACH UTILIZING 50 TO 150 CHILDREN AS…
Descriptors: College Students, Discovery Processes, Problem Solving, Prompting
Two Modes of Mental Representation and Problem Solution in Syllogistic Reasoning.
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Ford, Marilyn – Cognition, 1995
Protocols of people attempting to solve syllogistic problems and explaining how they reached their conclusions were examined. Two main groups of subjects were identified. One group represented the relationship between classes in a spatial manner supplemented by verbal representation. The other group used a primarily verbal representation. A…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Critical Thinking, Logic
Differences in Japanese and United States Styles of Thinking.
Torrance, E. Paul; Sato, Saburo – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1979
Among findings were that almost twice as many Japanese students preferred the intuitive approach to solving problems, and 27 percent of Japanese students regarded themselves as more intellectual than creative compared to 49 percent of American students studied. Preference by the Japanese students for verbal modes of learning as compared to their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Creativity, Educational Research