Exam 12: Problem Solving

Castel,McCabe,Roediger,and Heitman (2007)investigated whether experts might be more or less susceptible than novices to the DRM memory illusion.They tested people who were more and less knowledgeable about and found that experts were

Trying to think of as many uses for a paper clip as you can would be considered

A finding regarding medical expertise indicates that those at an intermediate level of knowledge actually remember more information than do experts.This is called the

In a study on stereotype threat,Quinn and Spencer (2001)had female and male participants engage in mathematical reasoning tasks.In one condition (group A),participants were told that the test was gender fair,yielding equivalent performance between men and women.The other group (group B)was given no such instruction.The results showed that

Suppose I am planning a wedding with 200 guests,and everyone is going to have a designated place at 22 different dinner tables.Trying to figure out who is going to sit where,and with whom,would be considered

Nunes and Kramer (2009)investigated whether age-related declines in certain aspects of performance (e.g. ,speed,multitasking)are offset by experience.What did they find?

Which approach to problem solving attempts to minimize the "distance" between an initial state and a goal state by breaking the problem down into a series of subgoals?

Looking at a sequence of numbers and trying to figure out the correct next number in the sequence would be considered

The notion of incubation has a great deal of intuitive validity-the idea of taking a break aids in the solution to a problem-makes sense.What is the empirical evidence for this phenomenon?

According to Thorndike,if a response leads to a satisfying outcome,the connection between the response and the situation in which it took place will be strengthened.This learning process is called

Which of these is not a difference between the way experts and novices go about solving a problem?

Wallas (1926)proposed a four-stage model of the creative process,which includes all of the following stages except

According to the Gestalt psychologists,the sudden and successful restructuring of problem elements is called

According to problem solving as the law of effect,

Mental set operates at which stage of problem solving?

The vastness of problem space associated with many problems

Algorithm is to heuristic as _____ is to

Research on the brain correlates of problem solving indicate that

The tendency to rely on habits and procedures that worked to solve a problem in the past is called

Metcalfe investigated the metacognition involved in solving insight and non-insight problems.She found