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Across five experiments, people could use a story analogy from a distant military domain to solve Duncker’s radiation problem, especially when given a hint to use the story. Without such a hint, spontaneous noticing and transfer dropped sharply, even though the analogy was often retrievable and usable once prompted.
Key findings
- In Experiment I, all 10 subjects given the Attack-Dispersion story produced the dispersion solution, versus 0 of 10 controls; the Open Supply Route story raised open-passage proposals to 70% versus 20% in other conditions, and the Tunnel story raised operation proposals to 80% versus 43% elsewhere.
- In Experiment II, the Attack story produced 76% total dispersion solutions (57% complete, 19% partial), the Parade story produced 49% (31% complete, 18% partial), and controls produced 8%; the less analogous Parade problem statement reduced transfer. Effective analogies also narrowed search: non-dispersion proposals averaged 1.17 for Attack, 1.40 for Parade, and 2.12 for controls, while healthy-tissue-protection alternatives appeared for 2% of Attack, 16% of Parade, and 28% of control subjects.
- In Experiment III, 22 of 45 subjects (49%) generated the military dispersion solution; 9 of those 22 (41%) then produced a radiation dispersion solution, compared with 3 of the remaining 23 (13%). This 41% was lower than the 76% obtained in Experiment II when the solution was supplied by the experimenter.
- In Experiment IV, 11 of 12 hinted subjects (92%) produced the complete dispersion solution, but only 3 of 15 no-hint subjects (20%) did so, and probably only 1 noticed the analogy spontaneously. In Experiment V, 43% produced the solution before a hint and 76% eventually did; the incubation-control condition produced it for only 1 of 10 subjects (10%), and that subject did so before seeing the story.
Methods
- Five experiments used Duncker’s radiation problem as the target and military stories as analogies. Experiment I used oral protocols with 40 undergraduates, 10 per condition, comparing three story types against a no-story control with experimenter prompts. Experiment II used a noninteractive booklet with 143 undergraduates assigned to Attack, Parade, or control. Experiment III had 46 students first solve the military problem and then the radiation problem. Experiment IV had 27 paid subjects memorize the critical story among two distractor stories and then solve the radiation problem with or without a hint. Experiment V had 47 paid subjects in Story First, Story Second, or Incubation Control conditions.
- Main analyses scored solution types by independent scorers, used G² tests for condition comparisons, and supplemented these with protocol excerpts, helpfulness/creativity/practicality ratings, and recall scoring in Experiment IV.
Limitations
- Stated by the authors: the study used only one target problem and a limited set of story analogies, so generalization is cautious; it remains unclear whether similar results would hold for more computational or multi-step problems; more work is needed on spatial representation, noticing, memory access, and mapping; post-hoc questionnaires may reflect hindsight; protocol analysis has obvious limits; and Experiment III was correlational, though additional evidence suggested a causal influence.
- Evident from the text, not framed as author limitations: samples were undergraduates or paid subject-pool participants, several conditions had small numbers (e.g., 12 hinted and 15 no-hint subjects in Experiment IV; 10 incubation-control subjects in Experiment V), and Experiment I involved substantial experimenter prompting and feedback.
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“However, when no hint to consider the story was given, frequency of analogous solutions decreased markedly.”
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“In all experiments subjects who first read a story about a military problem and its solution tended to generate analogous solutions to a medical problem (Duncker's “radiation problem”), provided they were given a hint to use the story to help solve the problem.”
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“Subjects were able to retrieve the story from memory and use it to generate an analogous solution, even when the critical story had been memorized in the context of two distractor stories (Experiment IV).”
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“Transfer frequency was reduced when the problem presented in the military story was substantially disanalogous to the radiation problem, even though the solution illustrated in the story corresponded to an effective radiation solution (Experiment II).”
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“Subjects in Experiment III tended to generate analogous solutions to the radiation problem after providing their own solutions to the military problem.”
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“However, 22 of the 45 subjects (49%) produced the gist of the dispersion solution: the general should divide the troops into small groups and send them down different roads.”
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“The value of 41% is significantly higher than the 8% of subjects who produced the dispersion solution to the radiation problem without any prior story problem (Control condition of Experiment II), G2(1) = 10.4,p < .Ol.”
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“Newman-Keuls tests revealed that only the difference between the Tunnel and Attack-Dispersion conditions was significant (p < .Ol).”
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“For the Hint condition, 11 out of 12 subjects (92%) produced the complete dispersion solution.”
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“The protocols of 2 of the 3 prompted subjects suggested use of a solution-focusing strategy.”
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“Two subjects in the Tunnel condition who produced the dispersion solution did so after first spontaneously remarking that the general might have sent his men down multiple roads.One other subject, in the Open Supply Route condition, also suggested the dispersion solution to the military problem, but failed to apply it to the radiation problem.”
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“Eighty percent of subjects in the Tunnel conditions produced operation solutions, as opposed to 43% of subjects in all other conditions, G2(1) = 4.29, p < .05.”
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“Collapsing over subjects in all conditions, the dispersion solution tended to be rated as most practical (a mean of 2.0), followed by the open passage (3.9) and operation solutions (5.4).”
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“Control subjects more often were prompted to talk.Sometimes they seemed confused and asked if there really was a solution to the problem.In addition, control subjects received fewer prompts to clarify their solutions.”
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“Collapsing over all conditions, dispersion solutions tended to be produced relatively early in the sequence of proposals given by a subject (i.e., prior to the proposal of median rank, p < .025by a sign test).”
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“However, when later questioned by the experimenter, S28 clearly was also aware of correspondences between the radiation problem and the prior story'.It is therefore uncertain which analogy initially triggered generation of the dispersion solution.”
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“In the Attack-Dispersion condition seven subjects produced and rated the dispersion solution and at least one other proposal.The dispersion solution was rated as much more practical than other solutions (1.43 versus 4.64), F(1,6) = 27.2,p < .Ol.”
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“In addition, 10 of the 12 subjects indicated that the Attack-Dispersion story was “very helpful,” one indicated that it was “somewhat helpful,” and one did not answer the question.In contrast, 50% of the subjects indicated that “The Wine Merchants” was “not helpful at all,” and 91% (10 of 11 who answered the question) indicated that “The Identical Twins” was “not helpful at all.””
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“The mean number of proposals was 1.17 for the Attack condition, 1.40 for the Parade condition, and 2.12 for the control condition, F(2,139) = 12.7, p < .OOl.A Newman-Keuls test indicated that only the difference between the control condition and the two story conditions was significant, p < .Ol.”
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“Of 24 subjects who gave the successive groups solution to the military problem, 10 (42%) suggested an accumulation solution to the radiation problem.In contrast, only 3 of the remaining 21 subjects (14%) suggested an accumulation solution to the radiation problem, G2(l) = 4.28, p < .05.”
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“Seventy percent of subjects in the Open Supply Route condition produced the open passage solution, as opposed to 20% of subjects in all other conditions, G2(1) = 8.21, p < .Ol.”
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“Most subjects who produced a dispersion solution rated the story as “very helpful.”In contrast, the majority of those subjects in both conditions who failed to produce a dispersion solution rated the story as “not helpful at all.””
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“Dispersion solutions were produced by 76% of the subjects in the Attack-Dispersion condition, 49% of the subjects in the Parade-Dispersion condition, and only 8% of the subjects in the control condition, G2(2) = 53.1,p < .OOl.”
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“For this solution the frequency differences among the four conditions were highly significant, G2(3) = 33.9,p < .OOl, as was a comparison between the Attack-Dispersion condition versus all others, G2( 1) = 30.9,p < .001.3”
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“Of the nine subjects who generated the dispersion solution to both problems, all but one indicated that the military story was “somewhat” or “very” helpful in solving the radiation problem (one other subject did not respond to this question).In contrast, a majority (58%) of the remaining subjects indicated that the story was not helpful at all.”
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“Of the 22 subjects who produced the dispersion solution to the military problem, 9 (41%) subsequently produced either complete or partial dispersion solutions to the radiation problem.Five of these subjects produced a complete solution.In contrast, only 3 of the remaining 23 subjects (13%) produced this solution G2( 1) = 4.61, p < .05.Two of these subjects produced a complete solution.”
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“Parallel analyses for the Open Supply Route and Tunnel conditions revealed no significant differences.”
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“For the Open Supply Route story, the open passage solution received the highest rating, although it did not differ significantly from the ratings given the two operation solutions.However, these three solutions were all rated significantly higher than any of the others (p < .05).”
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“Notice also that the solution S 15 proposes prior to the prompt involves the idea of applying many low-intensity rays.After the prompt, the subject produces the dispersion solution by augmenting this aspect of the earlier solution with the idea of sending rays from many angles.”
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“Of the 10 subjects in the Attack-Dispersion condition, 7 produced the dispersion solution without any prompt, and 3 produced it after being prompted to refer back to the story.”
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“Whereas 92% of the subjects in the Hint condition produced the dispersion solution, only 20% (3 out of 15) of those in the No Hint condition did so, G2(1) = 15.5,~< .OOl.”
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“Fifteen of the twenty subjects selected the dispersion solution as more practical @ < .05by a sign test).”
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“Also note that at the beginning of this excerpt S28 remarks that the dispersion solution made it hard to think of alternative solutions, suggesting that he was aware of a set effect.No other subject explicitly mentioned such an inhibitory effect of the prior story.”
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“In the case of the Tunnel condition four of the eight subjects who generated operation solutions received a prompt to use the story before they did so.”
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“Such solutions were produced by 30% of the subjects in the control condition, 10% of the subjects in the Tunnel condition, and none of the subjects in the Attack-Dispersion and Open Supply conditions.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“The average number of nonanalogous solutions produced was 1.10 for the Attack-Dispersion condition, 1.60 for the Open Supply Route condition, 2.70 for the Tunnel condition, and 2.00 for the control condition, F(3,36) = 4.17, p < .025.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“After the prompt to use the story, this subject clearly focuses on the solution of dividing up the army into groups and immediately generates the parallel solution to the radiation problem.There is no apparent map- ping between the initial problem stated in the story and the target problem.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“Among the three story conditions, the Open Supply Route condition produced the second highest frequency of operation solutions, while the Tunnel condition produced the second highest frequency of open passage solutions.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“All 10 subjects who were given the Attack-Dispersion story produced this solution, whereas not a single control subject did so.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“This subject's protocol is particularly interesting because he claimed that he generated the dispersion solution on the basis of an analogy between the radiation problem and an actual problem he had read about the previous night (using lasers to fuse the filament in a lightbulb without breaking the glass).”
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“Whereas 76% of the subjects in the two experimental conditions eventually produced the dispersion solution, only 10% (one subject) produced it in the Incubation Control condition, G2(1) = 15.0,p < .OOl.”
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“| Incubation Control | 10 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 10 |”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Identical Twins
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“Subjects in this experiment seemed to have little difficulty in identifying the appropriate story in memory, and applying it to the target problem, as long as they were instructed to do so.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Noticing and Accessing Potential Analogies
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“| Story Second | 10 | 35 | 30 | 25 | 20 |”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Identical Twins
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“| Attack-Dispersion | 57 | 19 | 76 | 47 |”
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“| Parade-Dispersion | 31 | 18 | 49 | 45 |”
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“| Control | 8 | 0 | 8 | 50 |”
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“| Attack-Dispersion story | 100 | 10 | 30 |”
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“| Control | 0 | 20 | 50 |”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Identical Twins
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“| Story First | - | 41 | 35 | 24 | 17 |”
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“In the Story First condition, 41% of the subjects gave the dispersion solution on their first attempt following recall of the story; while in the Story Second condition, 35% of the subjects produced this solution immediately after reading the story.”
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“Collapsing over the Story First and Story Second conditions, 43% of the subjects generated the dispersion solution prior to receiving the hint, while a total of 76% eventually succeeded in producing the critical solution.”
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“Three propositions were recalled by all 27 subjects.These were proposition 1 (“A small country was ruled by a king”) and propositions 5 and 6 (“Many roads radiated outward from the fortress like spokes on a wheel”).”
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“They argue that the understanding process may involve the iterative application of a set of inference rules that generate increasingly abstract “macrostructure” representations of a prose passage.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Representation of Analogy
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“While the process of solving analogy test items of the form A:B::C:D has been studied quite extensively (Sternberg, 1977a(Sternberg, , 1977b)), there has been little experimental investigation of analogical thinking in more complex problem-solving tasks.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > INTRODUCTION
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“The hydraulic model of the blood circulation system, the planetary model of atomic structure, and the “billiard ball” model of gases all represent major scientific theories founded on analogies (Boden, 1977, Chap. 11).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > INTRODUCTION
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“The anecdotal reports of creative scientists and mathematicians suggest that the development of a new theory frequently depends on noticing and applying an analogy drawn from a different domain of knowledge (Hadamard, 1954).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > INTRODUCTION
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“While much remains to be learned about how this process operates, the three specific inference rules proposed by Kintsch and Van Dijk (which they term “deletion,” “generalization,” and “construction”) would seem readily applicable to the type of story analogies we are considering here.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Representation of Analogy
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“In other words, the army and the rays do not till corresponding semantic roles in propositions 5 and 5'; rather, the army is the object of the process of destruction in 5, while the rays are the instrument of the destruction in 5'.”
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“Duncker identified three broad categories of proposed solutions to the radiation problem: (1) reducing the intensity of the rays as they pass through the healthy tissue; (2) avoiding contact between the rays and healthy tissue; and (3) altering the relative sensitivity to rays of the healthy tissue and the tumor (e.g., by immunizing the healthy tissue or sensitizing the tumor).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > THE RADIATION PROBLEM AND ITS ANALOGIES
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“It seems clear, however, that the “semantic distance” between analogous domains can vary a great deal.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > INTRODUCTION
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“A system of representation for analogy must be able to describe a fundamental property of such relational systems, namely, that analogy may be defined at multiple levels of abstraction.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Representation of Analogy
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“S15 appeared to use the story analogy to develop the early partial solution; however, other subjects apparently generated an abstract partial solution independently of the analogy.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“In contrast, the Open Supply Route story only suggests that an existing open passage might be used.The subject must then search memory to find a concrete example of such an open passage to the stomach (e.g., the esophagus).Applying the analogy thus involves two steps: mapping the abstract idea of an open passage from the story to the target problem, and then thinking of a concrete example of such”
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“Two independent scorers were entirely in agreement in identifying dispersion solutions to the radiation problem.”
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“In order to avoid any possibility that subjects could be led to a particular solution by the experimenter, Experiment II used a noninteractive procedure in which story analogies and the radiation problem were administered in booklet form.”
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“This analysis was done by two independent scorers, each blind to the conditions in which subjects served.Disagreements were resolved by discussion.”
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“Analogous radiation solutions might be to operate to expose the tumor to the rays, or to insert a tube through the stomach wall and send rays through it to the tumor.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS
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“Subjects' protocols for the radiation problem were transcribed and scored for the presence of various types of proposed solutions, by two independent scorers.”
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“Given the lack of empirical research on analogical problem solving, even more basic issues arise.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS
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“While the numbers involved were too small to be statistically reliable, these results suggest that an analogy may tend to block generation of alternative types of solutions.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“Furthermore, 2 of these 3 subjects gave only partial solutions (as defined in Experiment II), and indicated that they did not consider using the stories.It is therefore possible, and in fact rather likely, that only 1 of the 15 subjects spontaneously noticed the critical analogy and successfully applied it to produce the dispersion solution.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“For our story analogy and target problem the solution process appears to require three major steps.”
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“(2) The representation of the story must be mapped onto that of the problem.”
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“(3) Finally, the person must use the mapping to generate the parallel solution to the target problem.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Representation of Analogy
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“Second, the effectiveness of analogies in prompting a specific solution is a matter of degree.In particular, a story with a problem statement analogous to that of the radiation problem (the Attack story) was more likely to trigger the dispersion solution than was a story with a problem statement less related to that of the radiation problem (the Parade story).This was true even though both stories”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“The overall impression created by the problem-solving protocols is that the generation of analogous solutions involves a conscious process of mapping correspondences between the story and the target problem.The degree of mapping required seems to vary a great deal.Sometimes mapping was done in considerable detail, particularly if the subject was having difficulty producing a parallel solution.In”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“Subjects clearly had no serious difficulty in identifying the critical story analogy in memory and applying it to generate the dispersion solution to the radiation problem.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“Notice that both types of solutions involve avoiding contact between the rays and the healthy tissue, by directing the rays through an unobstructed route.The basic difference between the two solution types is simply that the open passage solution makes use of a preexisting route (the esophagus), while the operation solutions require that the route be constructed (by some type of operation).”
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“Duncker (1945) reported that only 2 of 42 subjects arrived at this dispersion solution, and both were prompted by the experimenter.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS
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“The data for one subject in the Parade-Dispersion condition who was familiar with the radiation problem and dispersion solution were discarded.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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“There seem to be at least three distinct ways in which subjects who have a relevant analogy available might nonetheless fail to derive the parallel solution to a target problem.”
- Also stated in: § ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS · hedged
“The first and most basic is that subjects might be unable to successfully apply the story analogy even if they tried.”
- Also stated in: § ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS · hedged
“Third, subjects might be able to retrieve a potentially useful analogy and yet fail to spontaneously notice its relevance to the target problem.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS
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“Since subjects were randomly assigned to the two conditions, degree of memory for the critical story should have been equalized across the two conditions.”
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“As anticipated, the mean number of propositions recalled did not differ significantly between the Hint and No Hint groups (32.08 versus 33.53), f < 1.”
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“Even though the stories and the target problem were always presented verbally in our experiments, the problems essentially describe spatial relationships.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > GENERAL DISCUSSION
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“The results of Experiment IV demonstrated that subjects can identify a relevant story analogy encoded into memory in the context of distractor stories, and can use the analogy to generate a solution to a subsequent target problem.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > EXPERIMENT V
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“For example, the mapping process may in part depend on interpretive procedures that are applied to a mediating spatial image.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > GENERAL DISCUSSION
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“We certainly need to be cautious in generalizing on the basis of the present study, which used only one target problem and a very limited set of story analogies.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > GENERAL DISCUSSION
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“For example, in one investigation of the use of hints in the “two-string” problem, the experimenter “accidentally” brushed against one string and set it in motion (Maier, 1931).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Noticing and Accessing Potential Analogies
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“This hint was very effective in eliciting the “pendulum” solution (attaching objects as weights and setting the strings in motion); yet subjects rarely reported being aware of using the hint, unless they gave the solution in separate stages, rather than all at once.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Noticing and Accessing Potential Analogies
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“However, of the seven subjects in the Story First group who gave the dispersion solution immediately after story recall, six reported that they used the story to help solve the problem.If we accept these reports at face value, it appears that the percentages of subjects in the two conditions who spontaneously noticed and used the analogy were identical (35% in both conditions).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Results and Discussion
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- Rests on an assumption: Subjects' reports about whether they used the story accurately reflect their actual use of the story.
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“Our use of a propositional representation to describe the correspondences between the stories and the radiation problem does not preclude the possibility that some form of analog representation plays an important role in the mapping process.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > GENERAL DISCUSSION
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“Note that the above description of the role of mapping potentially applies not just to problem solving, but to a wide range of cognitive skills requiring concept learning and classification of instances.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Generality of the Mapping Process
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“Intuitively, this phrase seems to elicit a spatial image that represents those essential aspects of the dispersion solution that can be applied to both the military and the medical problems.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > GENERAL DISCUSSION
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“For example, the mapping of correspondences between relational structures is involved in the use of schemata for story understanding (Rumelhart, 1975), frames for scene perception (Minsky, 1975), and scripts for understanding of social behavior (Abelson, 1975).”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > The Generality of the Mapping Process
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“This suggests that the process of analogical problem solving is neither automatic nor invariably applied by college students as a conscious strategy.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > EXPERIMENT V
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“This decline in transfer performance cannot be attributed to faulty encoding of the story analogy, since most subjects were able to produce the analogous solution once they were given a hint to apply the story.”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > Noticing and Accessing Potential Analogies
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The authors state this as an assumption.
There is an optimal level of abstraction at which analogical relations may be represented to effectively guide the solution process.
“Similarly, we assume there is an optimal level of abstraction at which analogical relations may be represented in order to effectively guide the solution process.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Proposition 1' (the tumor is located in the interior of the patient's body) is included in the macrostructure for the radiation problem as an inference based on knowledge of where the stomach is located.
“Incidentally, note that we assume proposition 1' is included in the macrestructure for the problem as an inference based on knowledge of where the stomach is located.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The person will use semantic knowledge to transform the relation of “capturing” into “destroying” via the common semantic core “overcoming”.
“In the case of propositions 16 and 16', we assume the person will use semantic knowledge to transform the relation of “capturing” into the relation of “destroying,” operating on the common semantic core (i.e., “overcoming”) that links the two relations.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The verbal protocols obtained while subjects thought aloud provide valid evidence about their underlying problem-solving processes.
“some subjects insisted that talking aloud hindered their thinking, and consequently did not say very much.”
“While this type of protocol analysis has obvious limitations, it may at least provide some hints about the process of analogical problem solving, and in fact served in part to motivate subsequent experiments.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The independent rating task subjects' likelihood ratings are a valid proxy for the story analogies' actual effectiveness in Experiment I.
“In order to assess whether subjects shared our intuitions we administered a rating task to 51 undergraduates, none of whom previously knew of any solutions to the radiation problem.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The experimenter's prompts and interactions in Experiment I did not create the analogous solutions or substantially distort the solution frequencies.
“Since a primary concern in Experiment I was to obtain interpretabie oral protocols, a considerable amount of probing by the experimenter was essential.However, it would clearly be desirable to demonstrate that people can use analogies to generate problem solutions without interacting with the experimenter.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The control condition with no story is a valid baseline for assessing story analogy effects.
“The control condition used no story at all, rather than an irrelevant story, because it seemed possible that an irrelevant story would actually interfere with the solution process.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The two distractor stories used in Experiment IV are disanalogous to the radiation problem.
“However, the two distractor stories were intended to be as disanalogous to the radiation problem as possible.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Subjects' post-hoc ratings of story helpfulness accurately reflect their solution processes.
“The results obtained with such post-hoc questionnaires must be interpreted with caution, since they may reflect hindsight rather than accurate memories of the solution process.Nevertheless, these rating results are at least a source of converging evidence.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Subjects' reports about whether they used the story accurately reflect their actual use of the story.
“If we accept these reports at face value, it appears that the percentages of subjects in the two conditions who spontaneously noticed and used the analogy were identical (35% in both conditions).”
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“Prior research suggests that, in general, a greater number of examples can lead to superior transfer when learning an abstract rule”
From A systematic review of interleaving as a concept learning strategy (2021) · cites this paper as Gick and Holyoak, 1980
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“GPT3 also displayed strong zero-shot performance on letter string analogies, 16 four-term verbal analogies, 17,19-21 and identification of analogies between stories. 18,22,23”
From Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models (2023) · cites this paper as [21]
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“GPT-3 also showed performance in the same range as human participants (though numerically weaker) on a problem set from Jones et al. 21 involving categorical, compositional, and causal relations (Figure 7d).”
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“participants performed worse on problems in which the analogs were semantically distant (i.e., the A and B terms had low semantic similarity to C and D), an effect that was also displayed by GPT-3 (logistic regression, effect of semantic distance for GPT-3: OR = 3 . 24, p = 0 . 0165, CI = [1 . 24 , 8 . 5]).”
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- Consistentχ²(1) = 30.9reported p < .001 · recomputed p < .001
“G2( 1) = 30.9,p < .001”
- Consistentχ²(1) = 4.29reported p < .05 · recomputed p = .038
“G2(1) = 4.29, p < .05”
- ConsistentF(3, 36) = 4.17reported p < .025 · recomputed p = .012
“F(3,36) = 4.17, p < .025”
- ConsistentF(0.5, 160) = 1.32reported p > .25
“F(.5,160) = 1.32, p > .25”
- Consistentχ²(1) = 5.78reported p < .02 · recomputed p = .016
“G2(1) = 5.78, p < .02”
- Consistentχ²(1) = 4.61reported p < .05 · recomputed p = .032
“G2( 1) = 4.61, p < .05”
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§ Analogical Problem Solving > INTRODUCTION
“(Hadamard, 1954)”
§ Analogical Problem Solving > References
“9. Hadamard, J. The psychology of invention in the mathematical field. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1945.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gick, M. L., & Holyoak, K. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Holyoak, Keith J.
- ORCID
- Holyoak, Keith J.
- Venue
- Cognitive Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1980-07
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 306-355
- ISSN
- 0010-0285 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1980169328
- Semantic Scholar
- 02c43f91ee87bf2968b57159d1cdc33dc3b1ed10
- Cited by
- 2,552
- References
- 32
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- 2026: 33 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 96 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 94 · 2019: 133 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 82 · 2016: 91 · 2015: 78 · 2014: 104 · 2013: 104 · 2012: 98
- FWCI
- 11.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Cognitive Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (7701211)
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- analogical problem solving, analogical reasoning, transfer of learning, distractor interference, problem-solving strategies
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