Abstract
This chapter discusses the research project that made use of a mental construction task developed by Finke and Slayton. The questions examined pertain to the effects of internal and external representation and to the effects of visual and verbal strategies on mental construction and decomposition tasks. The chapter presents some of the main data and some of the attempts at theoretical analysis. All the experiments comparing mental construction or decomposition with and without external paper-and-pencil support, consistently showed that people work surprisingly well with mental representation only. A change from mainly internal processing to greater dependency on external support represents a gradual increase in the use of controlled compared to automatic processing.
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