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    "pk": 33010,
    "title": "Goal Speciflcity in Hypothesis Testing and Problem Solving",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Theories of skill acquisition have made radically different predictions about the role of means-ends analysis in acquiring general rules that promote effective transfer to new problems. Under one view, means-ends analysis is assumed to provide the basis for efficient knowledge compilation (Anderson, 1987), whereas under the alternative view means-ends analysis is believed to disrupt rule induction (Sweller, 1988). We suggest that in the absence of a specific goal people are more likely to use a rule-induction learning strategy, whereas providing a speciflc goal fosters use of means ends analysis, which is a non-rule-induction strategy. We performed an experiment to investigate the impact of goal specificity and systematicity of rule-induction strategies in learning and transfer within a complex dynamic system. Subjects who were provided with a specific goal were able to solve the initial problem, but were impaired on a transfer test using a similar problem with a different goal, relative to subjects who were encouraged to use a systematic rule-induction strategy to freely explore the problem space. Our results support Sweller's proposal that means-ends analysis leads to specific knowledge of an isolated solution path, but docs not provide an effective method for learning the overall structure of a problem space.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Refereed Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Regina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Vollmeyer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Keith",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Holyoak",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Bruce",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Burns",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1994-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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