Person and task effects within complex problem solving

This overview presents results on complex problem solving, id which tasks a re linear systems. At the beginning, we define : what a linear system is.: Then we separated the results those due to person:or task characteristics. Person characteristics considered are motivation, intelligence and strategi es; task characteristics are semantic embedding goal specificity, hypothesi s testing and knowledge acquisition To integrate the results we apply the d ual-space model by Klahr and Dunbar (1988).