Kaplan and Simon's Experiment Presented Different Versions of the Mutilated

question 16

Multiple Choice

Kaplan and Simon's experiment presented different versions of the mutilated checkerboard problem.The main purpose of their experiment was to demonstrate that

• A)people arrive at the solution to an insight problem suddenly,but proceed more methodically towards the solution of a non-insight problem.
• B)a person's mental set can hinder finding a solution to a problem.
• C)people often have to backtrack within the problem space to arrive at an answer to a problem.
• D)the way the problem is represented can influence the ease of problem solving.

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Definitions:

DfWG

Degrees of freedom within groups, referring to the number of independent values in the calculation of variance within groups.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical test that assesses whether there are significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.

DfWG

This term is an abbreviation often used in statistical analysis that typically stands for "Degrees of Freedom Within Groups," referring to the variation of a set of observations within individual groups.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical technique used to compare mean values of three or more independent groups to find if at least one group mean is significantly different from the others.