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PROBLEM SOLVING, PLANNING AND PERSONALITY *
Author(s) -
Hunt Dennis,
De Lacey Philip R.,
Randhawa Bikkar S.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598708246770
Subject(s) - psychology , empathy , personality , problem solver , task (project management) , cognition , mode (computer interface) , presentation (obstetrics) , intervention (counseling) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , applied psychology , computer science , medicine , computational science , management , neuroscience , psychiatry , economics , radiology , operating system
The present study was designed to investigate student behaviour in a river‐crossing problem in light of prior experience, intelligence, personality, mode of presentation and age. Ninety‐six students at Year 6 and 61 students at Year 8 from schools in Australia were administered the Eysenck Junior EPQ and IVE scales, together with six cognitive tasks used to index the Luria successive and simultaneous processing and planning functional units. Each student was given a river‐crossing problem presented in one of two modes and at one of two levels of difficulty. Success on the river‐crossing problem was found to be independent of age, mode of presentation or prior experience on the task. There was a significant effect due to problem awareness, intelligence and empathy and a mode by success interaction. An attempt was made to group students into problem‐solver ‘types’. The results were discussed in terms of the link between cognitive and affective variables and intervention programmes.