AP Psychology FAQ 5.2: Thinking and Language

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

• Insight

• Heuristic

• Prototype

• Algorithm

• Retrieval

Which of the following terms best represents the ability to produce ideas which are both novel and valuable?

• convergence

• creativity

• algorithm

• representative heuristic

• availability heuristic

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

• Divergent Thinking

• Convergent Thinking

• Intrinsic Motivation

• Availability Heuristic

• Representative Heuristic

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

• Heuristic

• Insight

• Algorithm

• Convergent Thinking

• Divergent Thinking

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?

• Intuition

• Insight

• Availability Heuristic

• Representativeness Heuristic

• Algorithm

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

• Confirmation Bias

• Overconfidence

• Intuition

• Insight

• Algorithm

Generating multiple possible answers to a problem illustrates

• the representativeness heuristic.

• the availability heuristic

• belief perseverance.

• divergent thinking.

• a prototype.

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

• the availability heuristic.

• belief perseverance.

• an algorithm.

• the representativeness heuristic.

• fixation.

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

• prototypes.

• heuristics.

• phonemes.

• algorithms.

• framing.

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

• the availability heuristic.

• confirmation bias.

• the framing effect.

• belief perseverance.

• the representativeness heuristic.