Research on Influence of Number of Base Problems and Strategic Clue on Solving Insight Problems

The experiment aims to probe into the influence of the number of base problems and strategic clue on the activation of key heuristic information.The results show that the relation between the number of base problem and the activation of key heuristic information tends to be a "V" pattern,with the abstraction and summarization of pivotal heuristic information from the base problems of medium number to be the hardest.resulting in the weakest effect of activation.The results also indicate that the selective strategic clue is unfavorable to the activation of pivotal heuristic information,possibly imputing to the type of strategic clue,and the author suggests that the influence of varying strategic clues on the insight problem solving be further studied in the future research.