When Gick and Holyoak (1980)read participants the story about the general and the dictator,and then gave them Dunker's (1945)ray problem,what did they find?
A) Many participants immediately noticed the relevance of the first story to the second.
B) Participants had to be explicitly told to use the first story as an analogy for the second.
C) Even with direction,many participants did not connect the first story to the second.
D) Many participants immediately realized that the two stories were unrelated.

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Gick and Holyoak found that participants had to be explicitly told to use the first story as an analogy for the second. They did not immediately see the relevance of the first story to the second problem.

When Gick and Holyoak (1980)read Participants the Story About the General