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Direct linkRieskamp, Jorg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
The assumption that people possess a strategy repertoire for inferences has been raised repeatedly. The strategy selection learning theory specifies how people select strategies from this repertoire. The theory assumes that individuals select strategies proportional to their subjective expectations of how well the strategies solve particular…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Learning Theories, Inferences, Learning Strategies
Chronicle, 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
