The acquisition and application of information in the problem-solving process: An electronically operated logical test

Abstract

Brothers and sisters have I none But this man's father is my father's son. If a man has only ten trees and wants to plant them in five rows with four trees to a row, how can he do it? 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, –, – How did you solve these problems? What mental processes did you use? How can these processes be measured? With the advent of electronics, “thinking machines,” and information theory has come the possibility that human problem solving can now be studied in a more objective, quantitative, and systematic way.