According to the Gestalt notion of insight, people are obstructed in problem solving because they ...

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

Question 2

Insight problem is to non-insight problem as ________ is to _________.

a) concentration: AHA
b) well-defined; ill-defined
c) sudden; step-by-step
d) Tower of Hanoi; nine-dot

Question 3

Which of these would be considered a non-insight problem?

a) Duncker candle problem
b) two-string problem
c) nine-dot problem
d) Tower of Hanoi

Question 4

Wallas (1926) proposed a 4-stage model of the creative process, which includes all of the following stages except:

a) encoding.
b) verification.
c) illumination.
d) insight.

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