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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1985 Canadian Psychological Association
- ISSN
- 0008-4255
- eISSN
- 1878-7290
- DOI
- 10.1037/h0080073
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
The present experiment investigated the effect of a retrieval manipula-tion on spontaneous transfer in problem solving. In this study, subjects read a story illustrating a problem and its solution prior to solving an analogous transfer problem in a different semantic domain. The story contained diagrams that schematically depicted the problem and solution presented in the story. A visual retrieval cue for the prior story was manipulated by including one of the story's diagrams with the transfer problem. The results indicated that the retrieval cue facilitated spontaneous transfer, although additional subjects showed transfer when a hint was given by the exper-imenter to use the prior story to solve the problem. Similar results of spontaneous transfer and transfer obtained with a hint were obtained for subjects who received only the diagrams, without the story, prior to solving the transfer problem. The educational implications of retrieval manipulations in problem solving were mentioned in light of the present experiment.
Journal
Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie – American Psychological Association
Published: Sep 1, 1985