Reasoning Approach | Latent Variable | Item | Statement of Manifest Variable | Cognitive Function |
Strategic Approach | Preparing | 41 | I tried a lot of different ways until I found the right one | Exploration |
| 52 | I had several attempts at finding a solution before I gave up for a time and came back to it later | Impasse | |
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| 53 | I played around and explored the problem for a while | Exploration |
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| 56 | I set the problem aside for a time | Impasse |
Free-flowing Approach | Incubating | 36 | I drew upon all mental resources/parts of me to solve this problem | Breadth of attention |
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| 27 | I connected with the patterns in this problem | Associative |
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| 57 | Having set aside the problem for a time I found that the solution suddenly popped into my mind | Associative illumination |
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| 39 | I thought of how to get the answer to this problem while I was doing something else (e.g. riding a bike) | Defocused attention |
Feeling Approach | Illuminating | 38 | I developed a feeling about the correctness of my solution before I checked it | Intra-personal scrutiny |
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| 28 | I had a sense of relative sizes in this problem | Cue relevance |
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| 22 | The ‘answer’ or ‘how to get the answer’ suddenly came into my head while I was working on this problem | Intuitive insight |
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| 55 | I followed a feeling/ hunch about what to do | Intuition |
Systematic Approach | Elaborating | 31 | I used a sequence of logical steps in this problem | Sequential reasoning |
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| 29 | I organized my reasoning/thinking in a strategic way | Organizing |
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| 49h | Talked over the quantities in your mind | Familiarization |
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| 34 | I tried to verify/check that my answer was correct | Evaluation |