Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity.

It's hard to identify concepts when we can't come up with relevant

A mother and her four-year-old daughter hear the grandmother refer to the weather outside as "it's raining cats and dogs." The mother tends to get one meaning from this phrase, while her daughter is hoping for a lot of new pets.In understanding the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs," the mother and daughter are experiencing a difference in

You are locked in a windowless room with only a candle, a quarter, and a slab of processed cheese food.If you are able to use all of these items successfully to escape from the room, you would most likely have used

People readily get married even though the divorce rate is almost 50 percent, which illustrates how people in deciding to get married tend to ignore the __________.

A rigidity in problem solving caused by the inability to see new uses for familiar objects is termed

Psychologist Janet Davidson believes that insight involves the three abilities of selective combination, selective comparison, and selective __________.

When we group together all cars, regardless of the make of an individual car, because they share common characteristics or attributes, we are using

When people are presented with the problem of getting a five dollar bill without moving the stack of objects placed on top of it, they are usually unable to solve the problem because of the taboo that one should not destroy money, which would be considered a learned barrier to problem solving.

By counting the number of times you show fluency, flexibility, and originality, we could rate your creativity, or your capacity for __________ thinking.

You and a friend are presented with the problem of how you could determine how many equal weight stones would match your weight without using a balance scale.You suddenly remember the story of how Archimedes determined the amount of gold in a crown by the amount of water it displaced.Your friend tells you that he solved the problem using the same method because he remembered the Chinese fable about how the villagers were able to weigh an elephant.You and your friend both solved the problem using

If you mentally picture a dog sitting beside a mosquito, it is easy to "zoom in" on the dog's nose.However, you would take longer in trying to "zoom in" on the wings of the mosquito.This is because

Although most people use trial and error when they first try the Rubik's cube puzzle, some take the easy route of reading the printed instructions that give the steps for a(n)__________ solution.

A concept is defined as

In his work with mental images, Stephen Kosslyn found that forming an oversized image of an object you want to think about will help you "see" its details and understand it better.

Which of the following is one of Csikszentmihalyi's recommendations about how to become more creative?

Which of the following statements about signing and American Sign Language (ASL)is TRUE?

Often when children are first introduced to mathematical word problems, they begin adding the two numbers listed within the problem rather than paying attention to the most important part of the problem, which asks "How many will you have LEFT?" This illustrates which barrier to problem solving?

Thinking involves the manipulation of three basic forms of thought, which are

In selecting a career, it is best to

Which of the following ways of framing or stating a problem usually produces the best decision?