Flexible use of tactics in Sudoku

IF 2.5 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL Thinking & Reasoning Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI:10.1080/13546783.2022.2091040
Thea Behrens, Max Räuker, Michelle Kalbfleisch, F. Jäkel
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Abstract When solving problems people flexibly apply different tactics. Here, we use Sudoku to study this flexibility. In a think-aloud study participants use at least two tactics, a cell-based and a number-based tactic, and have personal preferences for one or the other. Response times in two follow-up experiments indicate that participants can be biased towards either tactic by task instructions and task requirements. We argue that previous research often used biasing task designs and therefore underestimated participants’ flexibility and overestimated the importance of a problem’s complexity. Furthermore, our experiments demonstrate that if a tactic does not lead to a solution, participants are able to switch to the other. We model each tactic and we show that only by incorporating switching we can fit the data.
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灵活使用数独战术
在解决问题时,人们灵活地运用不同的策略。在这里,我们用数独来研究这种灵活性。在一项有声思考研究中,参与者至少使用两种策略,一种基于细胞的策略和一种基于数字的策略,并且对其中一种有个人偏好。两个后续实验的反应时间表明,参与者可以根据任务指示和任务要求偏向于任何一种策略。我们认为,以前的研究经常使用有偏见的任务设计,因此低估了参与者的灵活性,高估了问题复杂性的重要性。此外,我们的实验表明,如果一种策略不能带来解决方案,参与者可以切换到另一种策略。我们对每一种策略都进行了建模,并证明只有通过合并交换才能拟合数据。
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Thinking & Reasoning PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
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