Cognition

Becoming accustomed to thinking of only a limited number of uses for something is known as..

• Prototypical modeling
• Functional fixedness
• Hill-Climbing
• Mental set

Which problem solving strategy is less likely to have errors?

• Algorithms
• Insight
• Intrinsic motivation
• Heuristic

___ a rule of thumb that is often useful in solving problems.

• Heuristic
• algorithm
• protype
• concept

___ is thinking of an object as only for what it is usually used for.

• functional fixedness
• confirmation bias
• mental set
• prototype

Experts in a given field prefer heuristics to algorithms because heuristics:

• Guarantee solutions to problems
• Prevent mental sets
• Often save time
• Prevent fixation

A dessert recipe that gives you the ingredients, their amounts and the steps to follow is an example of a(n):

• Prototype
• Algorithm
• Heuristic
• Mental set

When solving an anagram one must try every possible combination of letters until the hidden word appears. This is an example of:

• A heuristic
• A concept
• An image
• An algorithm

A memory aid

• mnemonic
• chunking
• implicit memory
• explicit memory

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relean
• recall

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay