Exam 8: Cognition, Language, and Creativity

A young child tells his grandmother that "he goed to town." The child's application of the normal past tense to the irregular verb "to go" illustrates that the child is attempting to use

Concept formation refers to

Kanzi usually placed action symbols in the order he wanted to carry them out, such as "chase tickle" or "chase hide." In this respect, Kanzi's grammar was on a par with that of a __________ year-old child.

The advice to set aside a problem or just to "sleep on it" would relate to which stage of creative thinking?

Donna is "looking over" her psychology notes while watching TV and texting her friends. Regarding her psychology notes, Donna is engaged in

Madie is taking the Anagrams Test, while Greg is taking the Consequences Test. Both of these are used to measure

Traditional grammar is concerned with the sentences we actually speak, which is referred to as

Although almost everyone who has tried to play a poker game like Texas Hold'em begins at the mechanical, trial and error level with those who persist and can keep up with the other players

In tests of creativity, the number of different types of solutions produced, such as the number of times you shift categories of uses, would constitute your __________ score.

Research on mental imagery indicates that

You want exactly nine gallons of water, but you have only a seven-gallon bucket and a five-gallon bucket. Although you, at first, do not see how these two buckets can help, you realize that you can use them in the following way. You fill the seven-gallon bucket, then pour it in the five-gallon bucket, leaving two gallons in the seven-gallon bucket. You then pour out the five-gallon, pour the two gallons of water in the five-gallon, and refill the seven-gallon bucket, and you have a total of nine gallons of water. To solve this problem, you had to use

Juan is taking a creativity test in which he is asked to come up with ways of utilizing the billions of plastic containers discarded each year. He is taking the

Many of history's renowned artists, writers, poets, and composers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allan Poe, Winston Churchill, and Ernest Hemmingway experienced symptoms of which type of disorder?

The tendency to perceive a problem in a way that blinds us to possible solutions is called

Fluency, flexibility, and originality would be LEAST characteristic of which type of thought?

The complete set of rules for a language that determines how to make sounds into words and words into sentences is called __________.

Would you rather eat "rare prime beef" or "bloody slab of dead cow"? Although they are basically the same type of meat, their difference lies in their __________ meanings.

Rapid insight, or the "Aha! experience," occurs during the verification stage of creative thought.

When you use mental images to choose what clothes to wear or figure out how to arrange furniture in a room, you are using them to

Identifying how the current state of affairs differs from the desired goal and then finding steps that will reduce the difference would be an example of a(n)__________ strategy.