The Effect of Reportable and Unreportable Hints on Anagram Solution and the Aha! Experience

Bowden, Edward M.

doi:10.1006/ccog.1997.0325

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“…Solution-related activation previously below the threshold of awareness could surpass that threshold, because strong misdirected activation (perhaps in the LH) may subside. Alternatively, solvers could increase solution-related activation because they may reinterpret a problem word or encounter hints or environmental cues (see, e.g., Bowden, 1997;Maier, 1931).…”

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“…Similarly, when trying to solve anagrams, solvers' speed, accuracy, and subjective experience of solution are all affected by hint words presented too briefly to be identified, but that apparentlyelicit some semantic activation (Bowden, 1997). Furthermore, incorrect solution attempts are often semantically related to the correct solution (Bowers, Regehr, Balthazard, & Parker, 1990), suggesting that solutionrelevant information was influencing solution attempts.…”

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Aha! Insight experience correlates with solution activation in the right hemisphere

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Jung-Beeman

2003

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Aha! Insight experience correlates with solution activation in the right hemisphere

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Jung-Beeman

2003

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…Anagrams should Set and Insight in Problem Solving 16 not be seen as insight problems because the central involvement in anagrams is that of search -searching through one's vocabulary until the correct word to fit the anagram is found (Weisberg, 1995; for a different view see Bowden, 1997).…”

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Investigating the Effect of Mental Set on Insight Problem Solving

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Jones

Knoblich

2008

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Mental set is the tendency to solve certain problems in a fixed way based on previous solutions to similar problems. The moment of insight occurs when a problem cannot be solved using solution methods suggested by prior experience and the problem solver suddenly realizes that the solution requires different solution methods. Mental set and insight have often been linked together and yet no attempt thus far has systematically examined the interplay between the two. Three experiments are presented that examine the extent to which sets of non-insight and insight problems affect the subsequent solutions of insight test problems. The results indicate a subtle interplay between mental set and insight: when the set involves non-insight problems, no mental set effects are shown for the insight test problems, yet when the set involves insight problems, both facilitation and inhibition can be seen depending on the type of insight problem presented in the set. A two process model is detailed to explain these findings that combines the representational change mechanism with that of proceduralisation.Set and Insight in Problem Solving 3

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“…Like Maier's (1931), most problem-solving studies have been concerned with transfer from analogical tasks, or supraliminal priming, in which an individual is fully aware of the stimulus, although he or she may not be aware that it is actually a hint. This method, however, may be susceptible to both memory failures (e.g., participants may merely have forgotten being aware) and demand characteristics (Bowden, 1997). Subliminal priming has neither disadvantage and, thus, offers an ideal method for examining the role of awareness in the resolution of impasses.…”

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Effects of subliminal hints on insight problem solving

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Two experiments tested a total of 509 participants on insight problems (the radiation problem and the nine-dot problem). Half of the participants were first exposed to a 1-min movie that included a subliminal hint. The hint raised the solution rate of people who did not recognize it. In addition, the way they solved the problem was affected by the hint. In Experiment 3, a novel technique was introduced to address some methodological concerns raised by Experiments 1 and 2. A total of 80 participants solved the 10-coin problem, and half of them were exposed to a subliminal hint. The hint facilitated solving the problem, and it shortened the solution time. Some implications of subliminal priming for research on and theorizing about insight problem solving are discussed.

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The Effect of Reportable and Unreportable Hints on Anagram Solution and the Aha! Experience

Cited by 99 publications

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Aha! Insight experience correlates with solution activation in the right hemisphere

Aha! Insight experience correlates with solution activation in the right hemisphere

Investigating the Effect of Mental Set on Insight Problem Solving

Effects of subliminal hints on insight problem solving

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