Metcalfe and Wiebe Gave Participants Problems to Solve and Asked

question 35

Multiple Choice

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.

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