Exam 9: Thinking: Concept Formation,reasoning, and Problem Solving

The process of drawing reasonable general conclusions from specific facts or observations.

Using a coat hanger to unlock your car door is an example in direct opposition to which of the following?

This process of insightful thinking is used to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information.

Mr. Johnston helps students learn to use the steps in the problem-solving cycle by posting a chart of the steps, and describing, as he works model problems on the chalkboard, which step of the problem-solving cycle is involved. Mr. Johnston is using which teaching technique?

Students in Mr. Stinson's class are playing out how the various characters of a story would react in a new situation. Mr. Stinson's class is using:

The two errors that are commonly made in conditional reasoning.

This type of thinking involves being able to see not only your own point of view, but also that of others.

Which of the following is NOT a general kind of syllogism?

The process of drawing conclusions from evidence.

Teaching how to think is an integral part of a curriculum.

When using this type of transfer, students recognize more readily when old information is not relevant in new situations.

When using this, students consciously and purposefully direct their thoughts to find a solution to a problem.

Problems that have the same formal structure, but different ways of expressing this structure.

These syllogisms involve determining the validity of a deduction based on conditions given in the premises of the syllogism.

Thinking is taught as a separate unit or even a separate course.

Students may tend to transfer learning only in conditions similar to those in which the original learning took place. This tendency is related to which of the following?

This may explain why students are so reluctant to check their work, proofread their papers, and think before they talk.

When people use this heuristic, they judge the probability that a particular event or object belongs to a certain category by how obviously it resembles the population from which it comes.

Chess experts have better memory for chess pieces than novices, but only when the chess pieces are placed on the chessboard in a sensible configuration for the game of chess. If the pieces are arranged randomly on the board,

This type of transfer occurs when you consciously apply abstract knowledge you have learned in one situation to another situation.