Promoting thinking in terms of causal structures: Impact on performance in solving complex problems

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Abstract

Goldwater and Gentner (2015) showed that the sensitivity for causal structures can be promoted with an intervention combining explication of causal models and guided structural alignment of situations from disparate fields with the same underlying causal model. We extended this intervention with inference questions and combined it with a subsequent complex problem-solving (CPS) task, in order to investigate whether enhanced sensitivity for causal structures results in better performance in CPS. This study (N = 108) compares the CPS performance indicators knowledge acquisition and knowledge application among three experimental groups (intervention, intervention extended with inference questions, control group) and reveals the following results: 1) The effectiveness of the intervention in increasing the sensitivity for causal structures was replicated. 2) Sensitivity for causal structures and CPS performance indicators were significantly positively correlated. 3) There is no direct effect of the intervention on CPS performance, but an indirect-only effect via enhanced sensitivity.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)2059-2065
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftAnnual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)
Jahrgang43
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa

(Fach-)Tagung

Titel43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
UntertitelComparative Cognition: Animal Minds
KurztitelCogSci 2021
Veranstaltungsnummer43
Dauer26 - 29 Juli 2021
Webseite
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
Ortonline
StadtWien
LandÖsterreich

Externe IDs

Scopus 85139408773
ORCID /0000-0002-1972-1567/work/141545675
ORCID /0000-0001-5165-4459/work/142248301
ORCID /0000-0002-4280-6534/work/142660246

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • analogical transfer, complex problem-solving, education, relational categorization