Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

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

When you form a mental image of "a car," the brain area where memories are stored sends signals back to the primary visual area to create that image through a process known as

Explain how experts, such as chess masters, differ from novices regarding how they approach problem solving.

When non-English speaking minority children are placed in an English-only classroom, subtractive bilingualism can occur, which means

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

After working to solve a problem for three hours, Larry has just about "given up" until he suddenly realizes the "perfect" solution and wonders why he did not think of it sooner. Larry has just experienced

The method of creative thinking that separates the production and evaluation of ideas is called

Psychosis involves the person exhibiting either delusions or hallucinations or delusions and hallucinations. In this example, psychosis would be a __________ concept.

Which of the following skills would NOT be assessed by creativity tests?

The error in intuitive thinking in which a choice is given greater weight if it seems to relate to what we already know is called the

Which of the following guides the flow of ideas as one explains how to perform a motor activity, such as playing a guitar?

Within only a few seconds, Ana determines that she does not wish to be at this fraternity party and makes a hasty exit back to her dorm. Which of the following was responsible for Ana's immediate, intuitive reactions to this "frat party"?

The smallest meaningful units of speech, such as syllables or words, are called

A beginning artist concentrates on drawing a vase of flowers without seeing that the "empty" spaces around the vase are part of the composition, too. This illustrates which barrier to problem solving?

Regarding concept formation, which of the following statements is FALSE?

The either\or quality of disjunctive concepts makes them

Rapid insight, or the "Aha! Experience," occurs during which stage of creative thinking?

Which of the following statements about enhancing creativity is TRUE?

An idea representing a category of related objects or events is called a(n)

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