According to the Gestalt notion of insight, people are obstructed in problem solving because they make one critical unwarranted assumption. If this incorrect assumption is removed, the floodgates open to a sudden solution
Kershaw and Ohlsson (2004) did a review of how people solve ________; their results were ________with the Gestalt view.
a) the nine-dot problem; inconsistent
b) the nine-dot problem; consistent
c) the Tower of Hanoi problem; inconsistent
d) the Tower of Hanoi problem; consistent
Answer: a
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