PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Pliers, Bipolar Disorder, Functional Fixedness
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A problem is when there is an obstacle between a present state and a goal and it is not immediately obvious how to get around the obstacle. To gestalt psychologists, problem solving was about: how people represent a problem in their mind. How solving a problem involves the restructuring or reorganization of this. They say that the solution to a problem depends on how it is represented. representation. Restructuring is associated with insight: the sudden realization of a problem"s solution. Metcalfe and wiebe did an experiment to distinguish between insight and noninsight problems: They hypothesized that with an insight problem, subject should not know how near/far they are to/from a solution. Whereas with a noninsight problem, they would know that they are getting closer to a solution. They gave subjects insight (triangle problem, chain problem) and noninsight problems (algebra problems) and asked them to make warmth judgements on a 1-7 scale every.
