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Why do people fail to see simple solutions? Using think-aloud protocols to uncover the mechanism behind the Einstellung (mental set) effect /
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Description: Uses a variation of the Luchins water jug paradigm. Computer-based study in a non-laboratory, but standardized private setting. Participating student serve as experimenters and recruit subjects from their personal acquaintances. Water jar tasks are presented on PowerPoint slides. Concurrent verbalizations are recorded by the software Audicity. Transcriptions follow an adaptation of rules by Dresing and Pehl. Coding of solution processes.
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