A preliminary study of distinctive features in problem solving |
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Authors: | David Wood John Shotter |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham |
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Abstract: | The abstract logical structure of family relationship problems, such as, “What relationship to a man is his mother's father?” was described in terms of a “distinctive-feature-transition count (dft)”, where the answer to the problem was characterized in terms of the distinctive features of descendancy, co-linearity, and sex. On average, it proved possible to predict the difficulty of such problems from such a count; thus tending to support the idea of a relational rather than an associative memory structure. |
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