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Direct linkMoss, 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
