NDLI: Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem

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Author	Guthrie, Lisa G. Vallée Tourangeau, Frédéric Vallée Tourangeau, Gaëlle Howard, Chelsea
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Outside the psychologist’s laboratory, thinking proceeds on the basis of a great deal of interaction with artefacts that are recruited to augment problem-solving skills. The role of interactivity in problem solving was investigated using a river-crossing problem. In Experiment 1A, participants completed the same problem twice, once in a low interactivity condition, and once in a high interactivity condition (with order counterbalanced across participants). Learning, as gauged in terms of latency to completion, was much more pronounced when the high interactivity condition was experienced second. When participants first completed the task in the high interactivity condition, transfer to the low interactivity condition during the second attempt was limited; Experiment 1B replicated this pattern of results. Participants thus showed greater facility to transfer their experience of completing the problem from a low to a high interactivity condition. Experiment 2 was designed to determine the amount of learning in a low and high interactivity condition; in this experiment participants completed the problem twice, but level of interactivity was manipulated between subjects. Learning was evident in both the low and high interactivity groups, but latency per move was significantly faster in the high interactivity group, in both presentations. So-called problem isomorphs instantiated in different task ecologies draw upon different skills and abilities; a distributed cognition analysis may provide a fruitful perspective on learning and transfer.
Starting Page	723
Ending Page	735
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0090502X
Journal	Memory & Cognition
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15325946
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-01-24
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Problem solving Interactivity Learning Epistemic actions Distributed cognition Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Arts and Humanities Medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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