AP Psychology Thinking

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Our mental image that best represents a category is called a...

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Prototype

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Which type of creative thinking expands the number of possible problem solutions?

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Divergent Thinking

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Which type of problem solving technique is methodical, logical, and will always lead to a correct answer if there is one?

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Algorithm

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Which type of problem solving strategy allows us to make an estimate on the likelihood of events based on how much that event matches a prototype?

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Representativeness Heuristic

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What is our tendency to think we know or can perform better or more accurately than we really can?

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Overconfidence

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Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates

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divergent thinking.

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A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of

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an algorithm.

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In trying to solve a potentially complicated problem quickly, we are most likely to rely on

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heuristics.

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The tendency to conclude that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor of classics than a truck driver illustrates the use of

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the representativeness heuristic.

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Despite overwhelming and highly publicized evidence that Senator McEwan was guilty of serious political corruption and misconduct, many who had supported her in past elections remained convinced of her political integrity. Their reaction best illustrates

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belief perseverance.