Author Question: According to the Gestalt notion of insight, people are obstructed in problem solving because they ... (Read 264 times)

mcmcdaniel · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the Gestalt notion of insight, people are obstructed in problem solving because they make one critical unwarranted assumption. If this incorrect assumption is removed, the floodgates open to a sudden solution.

Kershaw and Ohlsson (2004) did a review of how people solve ________; their results were ________with the Gestalt view.
a) the nine-dot problem; inconsistent
b) the nine-dot problem; consistent
c) the Tower of Hanoi problem; inconsistent
d) the Tower of Hanoi problem; consistent

Question 2

Insight problem is to non-insight problem as ________ is to _________.

a) concentration: AHA
b) well-defined; ill-defined
c) sudden; step-by-step
d) Tower of Hanoi; nine-dot