Why good thoughts block better ones¶
Bilalić, McLeod, & Gobet. (2008). Why good thoughts block better ones: The mechanism of the pernicious Einstellung (set) effect. Cognition.
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- Einstellung Effect
- Chess provides a precisely measured elaboration: Bilalić, McLeod, and Gobet (2008) showed via eye-tracking that grandmasters presented with positions containing both a familiar tactical pattern and an objectively superior but less familiar combination execute the familiar pattern without visually scanning the squares the better combination requires — the set forecloses not only retrieval but the perceptual search that would precede it.
This sourceEye-tracking evidence that expert players holding both a familiar and an optimal solution kept attending the squares of the familiar (smothered-mate) solution rather than searching for the better one.
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“But their eye movements showed that they continued to look at features of the problem related to the solution they had already thought of.”
- Chess provides a precisely measured elaboration: Bilalić, McLeod, and Gobet (2008) showed via eye-tracking that grandmasters presented with positions containing both a familiar tactical pattern and an objectively superior but less familiar combination execute the familiar pattern without visually scanning the squares the better combination requires — the set forecloses not only retrieval but the perceptual search that would precede it.
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