Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

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

In deciding on a career, Aria is thinking about the pay, working conditions, job satisfaction, needed skills, future employment outlook, and many other factors. Aria

In which programs are majority group children and children with limited English skills taught part of the day in English and part in a second language?

The basic units of thought: concepts, language, and __________.

According to Psychologist Janet Davidson, the three abilities involved in insight are

Research has shown that creativity is inherited and cannot be learned.

Which of the following is NOT a basic unit of thought?

A television interviewer who mentally tries out several lines of questioning before actually beginning a live interview is exhibiting the reflective process called

Which of the following best describes the relationship between language and thought?

One day, a classmate with whom you've been trying to go out socially gives you her phone number, which you write on your hand. However, as you try to put the number into your phone later, you cannot make out the last number. If you punch in the area code and the first six numbers plus "0", then punch in the first six digits plus "1", then the first six digits plus "2", etc. until you get the correct number, you are solving your problem by

Glancing at the television to see if your favorite program has started yet would be an example of

Thinking that applies a general set of rules to specific situations, for example, using the laws of gravity to predict the behavior of a single falling object, is referred to as __________ thought.

A baseball player, a skateboarder, or anyone involved in a movement-oriented activity would find which type of imagery especially important?

Having a teacher you came to appreciate only after classes were well under way, or only after the course was over, demonstrates that

Which of the following is fast, fairly effortless thinking that frees "space" in short-term memory and makes it easier to work on a problem?

You are asked to plant four small trees so that each is an equal distance from all the others. If you believe that the trees all have to be planted on level ground, you will be unable to correctly answer this problem because you are exhibiting

In group problem solving, the tendency of one person's ideas to trigger ideas from others is called the __________ effect.

The textbook problem of how many socks to take out of a drawer to get a matched pair when the drawer contains a four to five mixture of white and black socks requires the reader to realize that the four to five mixture is irrelevant information and that the only relevant information is that there are two colors of socks. Getting the correct answer of three socks requires the reader to first use which of Davidson's insight abilities?

According to Stephen Kosslyn, the BEST way to improve your ability to form more detailed mental images of an object is to

Regarding barriers to problem solving, the fear of making a fool of oneself or of making a mistake would be a(n)__________ barrier.