Exam 24: Problem Solving, Expertise, and Creativity

According to Luchins (1942), successive training trials on a complex version of a three-jar task led to the development of a(n) ________, which reduced success on a much simpler problem involving three jars:

According to Goel (2010) how many states characterise problem solving?

Experimental psychologists generally tend to focus on well-defined problems primarily because:

The most important heuristic identified by Newell and Simon (1972) was:

How many years fewer of deliberate practice did Grandmaster of chess Magnus Carlsen have on average than his competitors?

According to Macnamara et al. (2014) on which of these does deliberate practice have the greatest effect?

According to Baas et al. (2008), two key components of creative solutions are:

Functional fixedness is a form of which effect?

Asking participants to think of a word (e.g., blood) that goes with each of three given words (e.g., hound, pressure, shot) to form a compound is an example of which type of test?

Silvia (2008) found which type of relationship between intelligence and creativity?

According to Metcalfe and Wiebe (1987), there is a gradual increase in which of the following during non-insight problems?

When given a relevant analogy beforehand, people tend to focus on what type of similarity between problems?

Which of these is NOT one of the aspects of deliberate practice suggested by Ericsson?

The random process that Campbell (1960) argued led to major scientific discoveries was termed:

What did Wallas (1926) mean by incubation?

What is the weakness of using the hill climbing heuristic according to Robertson (2001)?

Newell and Simon (1972) built which of the following key assumptions into their General Problem Solver?

Which of these was not used by Simonton (2011, 2015) to explain creative discovery?

Which of these of these offers a critique of identical-elements theory?

Which method did Einstein use that indirectly led to his theory of relativity?