Abstract

Insight has been investigated under the assumption that participants solve insight problems with insight processes and/or experiences. A recent trend has involved presenting participants with the solution and analysing the resultant experience as if insight has taken place. We examined self-reports of the aha experience, a defining aspect of insight, before and after feedback, along with additional affective components of insight (e.g., pleasure, surprise, impasse). Classic insight problems, compound remote associates, and non-insight problems were randomly interleaved and presented to participants. Solution feedback increased ratings of aha experience in both insight and non-insight problems, with this result being driven by responses to solutions that were initially incorrectly generated. Ratings of aha for correctly generated solutions decreased after the correct solution was presented. These findings have implications for insight research paradigms as well as informing teaching methods.

摘要

洞察力是在参与者以洞察力过程和/或经验解决洞察力问题的假设下进行的。最近的趋势涉及向参与者提供解决方案，并分析所产生的经验，好像已经有了洞察力。在反馈之前和之后，我们检查了aha经验的自我报告，洞察力的定义方面，以及洞察力的其他情感成分（例如，愉悦，意外，僵局）。经典的洞察力问题，复合远程同事和非洞察力问题被随机交织并呈现给参与者。解决方案反馈提高了对有见识和无见识问题的aha经验评级，其结果是由对最初错误生成的解决方案的响应所驱动。提出正确的解决方案后，正确生成的解决方案的aha评分降低。这些发现对洞察力研究范式以及教学方法提供了启示。