Psychological Development and Education ›› 2008, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 31-35.

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Exploring the Mechanism for Prototype Elicitation Effect in Insight

WU Zhen-zhen, QIU Jiang, ZHANG Qing-lin   

  1. School of Psychology, Southwest University, Key laboratory of personality and cognition, Ministry of Education, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Online:2008-01-15 Published:2008-01-15

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Abstract: This study selected logogriph(a riddle about a Chinese Character) problem as the material and investigated the theory of the activation of prototypal matters in insight problem solving through the "Xvs.X(X=3,6,9)" learning and testing experimental paradigm,and explored whether the activation of prototypal matters was effected by the increasing of the amount of learning and the elicitation index.The results showed that:(1) the activation of prototypal matters wasn't effected evidently by the increasing of the amount of learning;(2) "elicitation" was an effective index and it greatly effected the activation of prototypal matters;(3) the results supported the idea that the activation of the prototypal matters came as a result of automatic processing and the activation of heuristic information in prototypal matters maybe the result of automatic processing.

Key words: insight, prototypal matters, logogriph, experimental paradigm

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  • B842.1
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