reading

Question 1

what research method was used in the article to study problem solving

Answer 1

eye tracking to measure overt visual attnetion during diagram based problem solving

Question 2

why can eye moevemnts provide isngiht beyond solution time and accuracy

Answer 2

because they reveal moment to moment cognitive processes stratgeies and attention allocation during problem solving

Question 3

what is dunckers radiation problem

Answer 3

an insight problem where a tumor must be destroyed wiht lasers withot damaging surrounding healthy tissue

Question 4

what is the solution to dunkers radiation problem

Answer 4

use multiple low intensity lasers fired from different angles os their beams converge on the tumor wiht enough energy to destroy it

Question 5

what characterizes a insight problem

Answer 5

the first strategy is incorrect leading to a impasses followed by a sudden restructuring that produces a aha moment

Question 6

what leads to the intial impasse in insight problems

Answer 6

self imposed inappropriate constrignts based on past expeiances

Question 7

what theory did knoblich et al suggest for solving insight problems

Answer 7

constraint relation and check decomposition support representatioanl restructuring

Question 8

what did grant and spivey test regarding insight

Answer 8

that attention itself might facilitate insight by directing cognition

Question 9

what was the cirtical feature in expirament 1

Answer 9

the skin area ( outer oval)

Question 10

what was the main goal of the first experiament

Answer 10

to identify attentional patterns associated with sucessful problem solving

Question 11

what percent of participants successfully solved the radiation problem

Answer 11

36%

Question 12

at the edn 30secs before the folution hwo did sucessful solvers differ

Answer 12

they spent a lot mroe time looking at the skin area

Question 13

Did successful solvers look more at the tumor or healthy tissue

Answer 13

No significant difference between groups in those regions

Question 14

what was the main goal of the second experiment

Answer 14

the test if perceptually highlighting the critical areas improves solution rates

Question 15

was there a difference in sucess between teh static and the animated tumor condition

Answer 15

static had a higher sucess then the animated

Question 16

what was the result of highlighting the noncritical area

Answer 16

sucecess rate stayed similar if not decreased a little

Question 17

what do the overall findings suggest about attention and cognition

Answer 17

attention can guide cognition not just reflect it

Question 18

What broader implication does this study have for problem solving

Answer 18

subtle visual cues can dramatically improve reasoning and insight by directing attention to relevant aspects of a problem