Exam 8: C: Cognition,language,and Creativity

Explain what "thin-slicing" is; and describe the findings of Ambady and Gladwell regarding this use of intuition,including the role of the cognitive unconscious and the limitations of "thin-slicing."

Fixations and functional fixedness are specific types of mental sets.

When we apply past experiences to problem solving,we typically use __________ images.

Elena,a minority child,is presently learning a second language and will most likely experience additive bilingualism.

Signing children pass through the stages of language development at about the same age as speaking children do.

Describe and give an example of each of the four barriers to problem-solving.

A child who says,"I drinked the milk" has created this sentence by using __________ rules.

According to Malcolm Gladwell,the immediate,intuitive reactions that can sometimes form the basis of more carefully reasoned judgments are due to the automatic processing of the cognitive unconscious.

Which of the following is NOT a basic rule of brainstorming?

According to your textbook,which of the following questions would be the LEAST likely to lead to a creative solution?

The essence of brainstorming is that

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

Majority group children and children with limited English skills are taught part of the day in English and part in a second language,in an approach known as __________ education.

In the first stages of creative thinking,it is important to

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

If you are feeling hurried by a sense of time pressure,you are almost always

Deductive thought is 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.

Thinking is limited to the human species.

The emotional or personal meaning of a word can be measured by comparing the word to the dimensions good/bad,strong/weak,and active/passive in an approach known as the __________.

Which of the following is a major barrier to creative thinking and can lead us to see a problem in preconceived terms that impede our problem-solving attempts?