COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gestalt Psychology, Darpa, Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation
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Note: sorry these notes aren"t as nice-looking as usual, i was writing in word instead of. Onenote since my laptop is currently being repaired. Review: we are currently studying insight, recall: the power of problem formulation was demonstrated by the mutilated chess board example a couple of lectures ago. In one formulation it is combinatorially explosive; in another it can be solved in three steps: kaplan and simon: attempting to nd a solution to a problem is modeled by a. With this insight, a person could realize they need to go outside the square in order to solve the problem: we then talked about transfer. Gick and holyoak, 1980 experiment - the radiation problem: the experimenters had participants read a story that implicitly contained the solution to the radiation problem. But people didn"t use the information hidden in the story to solve the problem.
