Mental fixation and metacognitive predictions of insight in creative problem solving.

Five experiments examined the influence of exposure to fixating information on metacognitive judgements of insight in creative problem solving. Participants were briefly presented with a series of Remote Associates Test problems and were asked to predict the likelihood of solving the problems at a l...

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Published in:	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 802 - 814
Main Authors:	Storm, Benjamin C., Hickman, Michelle L.
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Apr2015
Subjects:	Cognitive learning Metacognition Problem solving ability testing Remote associates test Analytical skills
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