CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The sudden “a ha!” feeling when you suddenly discover the correct solution to a problem is called
A
functional fixedness
B
insight
C
rearrangement
D
transformation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The eureka effect (also known as the Aha! moment or eureka moment) refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept.

Detailed explanation-2: -Insight or Aha is often identified as the subjectively distinct feeling of sudden and unexpected understanding that may accompany attempts to solve a problem (Sternberg and Davidson, 1995; Davidson and Sternberg, 2003; Cushen and Wiley, 2012; Weisberg, 2014).

Detailed explanation-3: -Abstract. A sudden comprehension that solves a problem, reinterprets a situation, explains a joke, or resolves an ambiguous percept is called an insight (i.e., the “Aha! moment”). Psychologists have studied insight using behavioral methods for nearly a century.

Detailed explanation-4: -An insight problem is simply a problem that requires insight to solve. Here are examples: Two boys were born on the same day, month and year to the same parents and they are not twins. How can that be?

Detailed explanation-5: -An insight problem is a problem that requires the examinee to shift his or her perceptive and view the problem in a novel way in order to achieve the solution. There are several types of insight problems. The three predominant types are verbal, mathematical, and spatial (Dow & Mayer 2003).

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