Metcalfe and Wiebe gave participants problems to solve and asked them to make "warmth" judgments every 15 seconds to indicate how close they felt they were to a solution. The purpose of this experiment was to
a. demonstrate a difference between how people solve insight and non-insight problems.
b. show how people progress through the problem space as they solve a problem.
c. show that some problems are easier to solve than others.
d. measure the time-course of solving well-defined versus ill-defined problems.
a
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