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1098.73 Cognitive mechanisms of flexibility in problem solving, Jaroslaw Orzechowski,
Jagiellonian University, Poland
The purpose of the study was to investigate cognitive mechanisms (various aspects of attention
and working memory functioning) of flexibility in problem solving. Guilford’s Figural Similarities
Task (FST) in computer implementation as a divergent production task was used. Subjects have to
devise as much as possible categories of exposed figural stimulus. Experimental manipulation in
FST is connected with cognitive demands (separately for working memory and attention)
necessary to put into finding a properly solution. Results indicate strong relationship between
flexibility and selective attention functioning. The obtained data will be discussed in terms of
ecological validity of flexibility in problem solving.
1098.74 Effect of generalization of worked-out example on access and use of principle, Xing
Qiang, China
Using the probability principle problems as the materials, two experiments had been done to
examine the effect of generalization of worked-out examples on the access and use of principle.
Exp.1 probed into the effect of different generalization of subgoal labels on the principle access.
Exp.2 probed into the effect of different generalization of subgoal labels on the principle use. The
findings showed that it was the generalization of subgoal labels had some important effect on
principle access and use. It was the different generalization of worked-out examples that make
learner acquired different generalizational schema.
1098.75 Additive integration in multiple-cue judgment, Linnea Karlsson, Peter Juslin, Henrik
Olsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
There is considerable evidence that judgment is constrained to additive integration of information.
The authors propose an explanation of why serial and additive cognitive integration can produce
accurate multiple-cue judgment both in additive and non-additive environments. Hypothesized is
that, whereas additive linear relations between cues and criterion can be explicitly abstracted and
integrated by a serial, additive judgment process, a variety of task properties, like non-additive cue
combination, are carried implicitly by exemplar memory. 3 experiments investigating the effect of
additive versus non-additive cue combination verify the predicted shift in cognitive
representations as a function of the underlying combination rule.
1098.76 Influences of currency on price evaluations, Amelie Gamble, Goteborg University,
Sweden
Research has documented an influence of the nominal representation of prices that are evaluated
as more expensive in a large-unit currency than in a small-unit currency. These results may
however be reversed when prices are compared to income since the difference between price and
income will appear smaller in the large-unit currency than in the small-unit currency. To test this
hypothesis two groups of undergraduates were informed of their income, then requested to
evaluate prices of different consumer products. Both prices and income were expressed in either a
small-unit currency or a large-unit currency. Results supported the hypothesis.
1098.77 The relationship between reading skills and the abilities in mathematical word problems,
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