Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

In one of his studies, Karl Duncker asked students to mount a candle on a vertical board so the candle could burn normally. The students who saw the box in which the materials were presented as only a container rather than as a part of the solution were exhibiting

Selective encoding is the

The ability to speak two languages is referred to as

Duane Rumbaugh and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh taught a chimp named Kanzi to communicate by pushing buttons on a computer keyboard. Each of the 250 buttons is marked with geometric word-symbol called a(n)

An algorithmic solution is achieved by using all of the following EXCEPT

A father and his young son walk by a store and see a big sign in the store window advertising a "Fire Sale" next Tuesday. Although the father knows this means that the store will be selling their goods at greatly reduced prices, his son wonders why anyone would sell "fire." This difference in their reactions is due to

When thought is passive, effortless, and automatic, the person is engaged in

Differentiate between convergent and divergent thinking and provide examples of each; describe the creative processes of fluency, flexibility, and originality; list and describe three ways that creativity can be measured; and explain why creativity involves more than just the production of original answers.

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

Many of history's geniuses, such as Einstein, Darwin, Mozart, Newton, Michelangelo, Galileo, Madame Curie, Edison, and Martha Graham, can be defined by their higher-level __________ abilities.

Generalized ideas that represent categories of objects or events are called

Which of the following is usually associated with creativity?

The verification stage of creative thought

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

Dr. Hart is investigating how humans mentally process information, such as images, concepts, words, rules, and symbols. He would best be described as studying

If you know a particular art history professor who is very creative, you would predict that he or she also

You can become more creative by doing all of the following EXCEPT for

Which of the following is a major barrier to creative thinking and can lead us to see a problem in preconceived terms that impede our problem-solving attempts?

Thinking that proceeds from given information to new conclusions on the basis of explicit rules is considered __________ thought.

As compared to novices, experts tend to