Exam 11: Problem Solving and Creativity

Suppose that you have always prepared a casserole in a certain fashion. Then you buy a food processor. It would be most efficient to prepare the ingredients in a new order, but you follow your old, familiar order. The strategy that you are using is

In problem solving, the term obstacles refers to

What is the difference between functional fixedness and mental set?

Anita wants a high-paying career after college. After graduation, she must choose between a job with a moderate salary but a good chance for advancement, and a job with a much higher salary but less chance for long-term advancement. If Anita chooses the higher salary now, she is probably using the heuristic known as

People are especially likely to use analogies effectively in problem solving

Which of the following students provides the best summary of the relationship between expertise and top-down/bottom-up processing?

According to the discussion of creativity,

The computer simulation called General Problem Solver

Chapter 11 describes the relationship between several personality characteristics and creativity. According to the research by Veena Pradhu and her colleagues, students are likely to be more creative if

According to the research on the use of diagrams in problem solving,

Research on the means-ends heuristic in problem solving has shown that

Anatoly has been playing chess since early childhood, and is described as an expert player. His cousin Viktor has only recently begun to play the game, and describes himself as a novice. We would expect Anatoly to outperform Viktor on tests of his memory for

Evelyn notices that a screw on her bicycle is loose, and she doesn't have a screwdriver with her. So she searches through her pocket and finds a dime, which is the appropriate thickness to tighten the screw. Evelyn has demonstrated

According to the discussion of insight problems and noninsight problems,

According to the discussion of problem-solving approaches, the hill-climbing heuristic

Which of the following students' summaries about metacognition and problem solving is the most accurate?

According to the introduction to the chapter on problem solving,

Suppose that you belong to an organization that plans to sponsor a speaker for next semester. At the planning meeting, the group members begin by dividing the project into four components: choosing the speaker, making arrangements for the speaker's travel, fundraising, and publicity. This arrangement is closest to the problem-solving strategy called

Suppose your friend Ellen has lost the back to her earring. She looks around her room, picks up a pencil, removes the eraser, and uses the eraser as a substitute for the missing part. According to the chapter on problem solving, Ellen

Your friend Jerome has lost his contact lens in his room. He begins searching in one corner and methodically moves from right to left and then back from left to right, examining every square inch. What strategy is he using?