Metcalfe and Wiebe (1987)gave Participants Problems That Required Insightful Solutions

question 167

Multiple Choice

Metcalfe and Wiebe (1987) gave participants problems that required insightful solutions and problems that could be answered using incremental problem-solving techniques.While attempting to solve problems,they asked the participants to report if they felt they were getting closer to the answer,using a hot-cold scale.Reports that they were getting "warm" predicted the ability to solve:

• A)insight problems.
• B)noninsight problems.
• C)both insight and noninsight problems.
• D)neither insight nor noninsight problems.

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Definitions:

Directional

Refers to hypotheses in research that predict not only the existence of a relationship between variables but the direction of that relationship as well.

Non-directional

A type of hypothesis that does not specify the direction of the expected relationship between variables.

Standard Error

A measure indicating the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; specifically, it reflects how much sampling variability a statistic possesses.

Variability

The degree to which data points in a statistical distribution or data set diverge from the mean value.