The thing that kills creativity | Psychology, insight, and problem solving.

What makes us creative problem solvers? The answer takes more than one video. But here are the results of some studies exploring how people solve physics problems: do they see the creative shortcut? Or are they stuck working out the problem in the standard way?

00:00 Introduction
00:26 What are force diagrams?
00:48 The study and its results
01:39 Explanation one
01:57 Explanation two
02:42 Why draw a diagram?

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References:

Kuo, E., Hallinen, N. R., & Conlin, L. D. (2017). When procedures discourage insight: epistemological consequences of prompting novice physics students to construct force diagrams. International Journal of Science Education, 39(7), 814-839. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Heckler, A. F. (2010). Some consequences of prompting novice physics students to construct force diagrams. International Journal of Science Education, 32(14), 1829-1851.
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Kuo, E., Hallinen, N. R., & Conlin, L. D. (2015, December). How prompting force diagrams discourages student use of adaptive problem-solving shortcuts. In The Physics Education Research Conference 2015.
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