PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Twin, Drawing Pin, Behavioural Genetics

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Duncker"s candle problem: give participant thumbtacks, matches and candle, mount the candle to a wall so that it will not drip wax onto the table. Many subjects do not realize they could use the thumbtack box to put the candle on the wall. It is hard for us to see every day object"s abnormal functions (it is hard to realize the box could hold something besides thumbtacks. If present objects w/o the tacks in the box: people used the box to hold the candle (figured out very quickly, without much thought) Asked people to fix non invasive strep testing methods. Looked at three variables in who won the challenges: Expertise: expert vs. novice in certain domain. Highest odds of winning: outsiders those who used a low search variation and high effort. If you are an expert: you need to have high search variation and high effort. Multiple sources of information allowed them to think outside the box.