Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity.

If you are asked, "How many ways can you use an empty egg carton?" you might begin by picturing uses you have already seen, such as sorting buttons into a carton.To give more original answers, you must

On a creativity test, you are asked to list all the uses of a dime with your total number of ideas being your flexibility score.

Which of the following can channel us down a narrow path so we attend to only part of the information provided, rather than weighing all the pros and cons?

The study of meanings in words and language is called

The orientation stage of creative thought is the stage at which

A mechanical solution to a problem is one in which

Regarding effective problem solving, which of the following is NOT a heuristic strategy?

Jake is taking a creativity test in which he is asked to list as many uses for a rubber band as possible.He receives a high score on the aspect of creativity measured by the number of times he shifted from one class of possible uses to another, which is called __________.

If you translated "Pepsi is for the younger generation" into Spanish and the translation reads "Pepsi reverses aging," you have a problem with

The advice to set aside a problem or just to "sleep on it" would relate to which stage of creative thinking?

Solutions to problems that are based on understanding are characterized by

You are directed to go to the orientation session in Ivy Hall, which is the large building to your right as you enter the south entrance to the MCC campus.These directions illustrate __________ concepts.

Although there is a 50 percent divorce rate, people still readily get married every year.These decisions probably would not occur if people did not

Ignoring the base rate

In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell argues that quickly making sense of tiny slivers of experience is not a case of hurried irrationality, but is a case of "__________."

After a problem has been critically evaluated and found to be faulty, the thinker reverts to the stage of

An expert bird watcher would be better than a beginner at all of the following skills EXCEPT for

Claudia's failure to see that a trash bag would make an excellent makeshift raincoat is an example of

Fixations and functional fixedness are specific types of mental sets.

Solutions by understanding depend on