COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metacognition, Gestalt Psychology
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Insight -> two schools that studied insight search inference framework -> newell and simon. Gestalt -> insight is something like perception when you get a sudden shifting of what is salience, what is foregrounded and backgrounded. Search inference framework -> can explain how search inference work by using. Gestalt -> sth else is going on dont have a coherent theory. Told people to think outside of the box -> they concluded disconfirm gestaltist theory of fixation -> where people were locked into a poor problem formulation and thus they cannot solve the problem. Gestalt thinks that insight is the overcoming of fixation. Winberg 1981 -> we shown that fixation is not operative and solving of 9 dot problem is not about overcoming fixation therefore the phenomena of insight does not exist. Once there are theoretical debate there will be experimental competition.
