Visual Thinking Research

 The visual thinking operation used for this puzzle was visual reasoning and kinesthetic imagery. My partner and I both found ourselves tracing over the shape with out fingers before attempting to complete the puzzle. By the end we found that you could really only start the shape in one spot in order to complete the shape without overlap. We often found ourselves thinking "well it has to go this way next otherwise it wont work", which is an example of this visual reasoning. 

 For this puzzle our brains went straight to matching which is a type of pattern seeking. We used the "long" way of preforming matching which was to look at each design detail by detail to find all the pairs, and then we were left with the one design that did not have a pair.