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1. Which of the following is true of highly creative people? a….
1. Which of the following is true of highly creative people?
a. They are less likely to experience an “Aha!” moment when they are incorrect about the solution to the problem.
b. They only pursue ideas that they are very confident will succeed.
c. They never question their ideas.
d. None of the above is true
2. A problem space includes
a. the operators that lead to a solution and the operators that fail to lead to a solution.
b. all possible states that could occur when trying to solve a problem.
c. only states that lead to a solution.
d. only operators that lead to a solution.
3. A persons preferred strategies, habits, and beliefs is known as
a. analogy development
b. their problem space
c. Einstellung
d. cause and effect diagram
4. Which of the following is TRUE about heuristics?
a. allows you to do an exhaustive search
b. strategically decrease the size of the problem space
c. decreases the efficiency of problem-solving strategies
d. guarantee a feasible solution
5. The bookworm problem illustrates how hill-climbing is an effective way to solve problems.
True or False
6. One theory on incubation suggests that this allows spreading activation to occur in different directions than the one we are currently considering.
True or False
7. How does confirmation bias help to explain this finding of belief perseverance even after the random feedback is discredited?
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Ability at task 6 Ability at related skills 4 Mean self-rating (1-7)
NO 0 Performance condition
a. During the task, participants searched their memory for evidence that disconfirmed or contradicted the researcher’s feedback.
b. After the feedback was discredited, participants searched their memory for evidence that disconfirmed or contradicted the feedback.
c. After the feedback was discredited, participants searched their memory for evidence that confirmed the feedback anyway.
d. During the task, participants searched their memory for evidence that confirmed the researcher’s feedback.
8. Practicing physicians read a description of a patient and were asked to choose a treatment. For one group, the choices offered were surgery and a specific medication. For the other group, the choices included surgery, the same medication, and a different medication. Why did more doctors in the second group prefer surgery over medication?
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80 70 60 50 Percent referring the patient for surgery 40 30 20 10
0 Surgery vs. one Surgery vs. two option for different options
medication for medication Available options
a. Doctors in the second group found it difficult to justify choosing either drug over the other and so chose neither.
b. Having more choices made doctors in the second group more risk seeking than the first group, so they chose surgery.
c. The doctors were attempting to calculate and maximize the patient’s utility.
