An Investigation into the Respective Influences of Nature and Nurture on Musical Ability

An Investigation into the Respective Influences of Nature and Nurture on Musical Ability

This study investigated the effects of problem characteristics defined by perceived structuredness, complexity, situatedness, and information richness on mathematical problem-solving performance. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the effects of problem characteristics obtained from participants’ subject-tive ratings of their problem-solving performance. In line with the causal model, the analyses showed that structuredness, complexity, situatedness except for infor-mation richness attribute accounted for the unique variance in the prediction of successful problem-solving performance directly. The information richness attri-bute indirectly accounted for unique variance in the prediction of successful pro-blem-solving performance.