Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity.

In the dictionary, Mark finds the definition of the word "liberal" includes the words "broad-minded," "moderate," and "tolerant." This definition represents this concept's __________ meaning.

For most people, fantasy and daydreaming are associated with greater mental flexibility or creativity.

Heuristics are problem-solving strategies which

Expertise allows for fast, fairly effortless (experiential)thinking based on experience with similar problems, which is called __________ processing.

When you approach a problem-solving situation by asking a group to produce as many ideas as possible without criticism, you are

Your English assignment is to write a short poem about fire and ice.To complete this assignment, you will need to use __________ thinking.

The either/or quality of disjunctive concepts makes them

Which of the following tends to inhibit creativity in the initial stages?

Passive, effortless daydreaming would be a type of

Psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi believes that one can become more creative by starting to do more of what you really enjoy and less of what you dislike.

Even when solutions are based on rapid insight, one needs to be able to revise or embellish these initial solutions.Therefore, one needs to allow time for the stage of creative thought that proceeds on a subconscious level, which is referred to as __________.

A key element in doing creative work involves

Elmer is attending speech therapy classes because he has a frontal lisp, that is, he mispronounces the "s" sound as a "th." For example, he might say that "the thun thines in the morning." Elmer is exhibiting a problem with

Research on mental imagery indicates that

Regarding automatic processing, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following statements about gestural languages is FALSE?

Mae was asked to solve the following problem: Pretend that you are a bus driver.You begin the day with an empty bus.At your first stop, you take on 10 passengers.At your second stop, 4 people get off the bus, and 12 people get on.At your third stop, 8 people get off the bus, and 2 people get on.At your fourth stop, nobody gets off the bus, and 1 person gets on.How old is the bus driver? According to Davidson, if Mae just adds the numbers without focusing on the relevant part of this problem, he or she is showing a lack of

The tendency to select wrong answers because they seem to match preexisting mental categories is called the __________.

A Bangkok, Thailand dry cleaner had an advertisement posted that stated "Drop your trousers here for best results." This illustrates how translating languages can cause __________ problems.

If you are feeling hurried by a sense of time pressure, you are almost always more likely to think more creatively.