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Direct linkMoss, Jarrod; Kotovsky, Kenneth; Cagan, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Two studies examine how the time at which problem solving is suspended relative to an impasse affects the impact of incidental hints. An impasse is a point in problem solving at which a problem solver is not making progress and does not know how to proceed. In both studies, work on remote associates problems was suspended before an impasse was…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiments, Association (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)
Moss, Jarrod; Kotovsky, Kenneth; Cagan, Jonathan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
There have been a number of recent findings indicating that unsolved problems, or open goals more generally, influence cognition even when the current task has no relation to the task in which the goal was originally set. It was hypothesized that open goals would influence what information entered the problem-solving process. Three studies were…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Objectives, Creativity
