Cognitive abilities involved in insight problem solving: An individual differences model
Cognitive abilities involved in insight problem solving: An individual differences model
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DOI：
10.1080/10400410802278719
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Peterson, Jordan B.
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作者：
DeYoung, Colin G.;Flanders, Joseph L.;Peterson, Jordan B.
这项研究调查了有助于解决洞察力问题的认知能力的个体差异。提出了一个模型来描述独立有助于洞察力的三种认知能力：聚合思维、发散思维和打破框架。该模型在大样本 (N = 108) 中进行了测试，通过对这三种能力的衡量来回归洞察问题解决性能。该分析表明，所有三种能力都可以独立预测洞察力。聚合思维被进一步分解为语言智力和工作记忆，它们也可以相互独立地预测洞察力，也可以预测发散思维和打破框架的洞察力。最后，当与非洞察力问题解决作为回归的预测因子进行比较时，只有洞察力问题解决与发散性思维和打破框架唯一相关。该模型被建议作为研究不明确的问题和认知能力的潜在有用的分类法。
This study investigated individual differences in cognitive abilities that contribute to solving insight problems. A model is proposed describing three types of cognitive ability that contribute independently to insight: convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and breaking frame. The model was tested in a large sample (N = 108) by regressing insight problem solving performance on measures of these three abilities. This analysis demonstrated that all three abilities predicted insight independently. Convergent thinking was further broken down into verbal intelligence and working memory, which also predicted insight independently of each other and of divergent thinking and breaking frame. Finally, when pitted against noninsight problem solving as a predictor in regression, only insight problem solving was uniquely associated with divergent thinking and breaking frame. The model is Suggested as a potentially useful taxonomy for the study of ill-defined problems and cognitive abilities.