title: Research on Problem Difficulty (in Chinese)
creator: Shao, Z. F.
creator: Liu, Y. F.
creator: Zhong, Y. P.
subject: Cognitive Psychology
description: This paper examines some sources of problem difficulty with the tool of a new type of artificial problems. The sources are: 1) the number of known variables: it has no effects on problem difficulty. 2) the number of unknown variables: problem difficulty will increase when it  increases. 3) whether prompting the names are not prompted. 4) the arrangement of variables; problem difficulty will increase if variables are arranged in disorder. 5) the number of operations (processes) to choose; problem difficulty will increase when it increases. 6) the similarity of the operations to choose: problem difficulty will increase when operations are similar. 7) the style of presentation of the former problems; it can change the likelihood that the attributes of problems enter man’s sphere of consciousness; problem difficulty will increase when the attributes of the former problems are unlikely to enter man’s sphere of consciousness.
date: 1996
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5657/1/Research_on_Problem_Difficulty.pdf
identifier:   Shao, Z. F. and Liu, Y. F. and Zhong, Y. P.  (1996) Research on Problem Difficulty (in Chinese).  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/5657/