Exam 13: Problem Solving and Intelligence

In order to teach students to be better problem solvers, we should do all of the following EXCEPT

A group of participants is interrupted while working on a problem. The participants then spend some time on an unrelated task and, finally, return to the initial problem. Studies of this sort show that the

A group of participants has just completed a series of problems involving water jars. In each problem, the participants needed to fill the largest jar, pour from it once into the middle-sized jar, and then pour from the largest jar twice into the smallest jar. The participants are now given a new problem, which cannot be solved via this procedure. We would expect that the participants will

Your friends sets a New Year's resolution to "be happier." Although this is a great goal, it could be hard to achieve. Using the appropriate terminology, explain what kind of problem this is, and how she should go about solving it.

Dr. Smarts is giving a test to a few students in his class. The test is very simple: he presents two objects and asks the students to reply as quickly as possible if they match (yes or no). Student 1 replies faster than Student 2. What does this indicate about the students' intelligence levels?

Consider the examples of autistic savants that were described at the beginning of the chapter. Given what you know now, how would you characterize their intellectual abilities? Make sure you use the appropriate terminology in your answer.

Experts have an advantage in problem solving and remembering certain information (like the position of chess pieces) for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they

Compared to novices, chess experts are more likely to have

An ill-defined problem is one in which

People often compare experts to novices. Which of the following claims about this comparison is FALSE?

Describe the stages of creativity. Include experimental evidence that supports the incubation and illumination stages of this process.

Which problem-solving heuristic is most likely to involve a question such as, "What do I have available to get from my current state to my goal state?"

Which of the following problems is ill-defined?

Blair is female and Alex is male. Which of the following statements about their IQs is most likely to be true?

Participants' use of hill climbing is evident in that

Dell is trying to solve the "hobbits and orcs" problem, so she must determine how to move the creatures across a river. Dell is most likely to be helped if she has had earlier experience with

Differentiate between the fluid and crystallized types of intelligence. How does intelligence change across the lifetime? What factors influence each type of intelligence?

In some procedures, participants are helped by an interruption during their attempts at solving a problem. In explaining this effect, which of the following hypotheses seems LEAST plausible in light of the available evidence?

One way to turn an ill-defined question into a well-defined question is to

Which of the following is NOT a procedure that makes analogy use more likely?