Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

To help understand how the ear "hears" sounds, Researcher Stephen Kosslyn would recommend that you

Creative thinking is often marked by a series of small steps that lead to an original solution and would be best described as

Thinking in which many possibilities are developed from one starting place is called __________ thinking.

Discuss concept formation; differentiate the three types of concepts and provide an example of each; and describe the use of prototypes in concept identification.

Seeing the world without preconceptions tends to lead to

Emotional judgments are part of which meaning of a word or concept?

In a pie eating contest, a "foul" is defined as: "Any use of the hands to remove the contents of the pie, any interference with another contestant, or any attempt to throw a pie at the judges." Used this way, the term "foul" is a __________ concept.

Compared to routine problem solving, creativity is more likely to involve

Thinking involves the manipulation of three basic forms of thought, which are

A detailed, practical, and workable solution to a problem is called a(n)__________ solution.

Which of the following is a major dimension of connotative meaning as measured by the semantic differential?

Changing the sentence "Jean gave Sid a birthday gift" to "Sid was given a birthday gift by Jean" illustrates the use of

When applying brainstorming to individual problem solving, these ideas should be initially produced without regard to

By counting the number of times you show fluency, flexibility, and originality, we could rate your creativity, or your capacity for __________ thinking.

Meg rarely wears her seat belt and often texts on her phone while she drives. However, she does not believe she will have an accident. Meg is exhibiting which intuitive thinking error?

Which of the following is another example of trial and error thinking that may work if the number of alternatives is small and involves trying possible solutions in a more or less arbitrary or unsystematic order?

If you are asked to multiply a four-digit number and a three-digit number and you follow the steps you were taught in the fifth grade, then you are utilizing a heuristic.

When fluent readers of English attempt to name the colors in which the words are printed rather than reading the words on the Stroop interference task, they usually have to deliberately check their responses to make sure they are not reading the color words aloud. This deliberate checking of their responses illustrates the use of __________ processing.

Which humanistic psychologist believed that we must live honestly and creatively to make full use of our potentials?

For the last 30 years, Duane Rumbaugh and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh have taught a chimp named Kanzi to communicate using