AP Psychology Mod 34/35 Summative

To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of: 

• the availability heuristic.
• functional fixedness.
• an algorithm.
• the representativeness heuristic.

Barnie's parents are divorced and several of his friends' parents are divoced as well. In a class discussion about marriage and compatibility, Barnie shares his opinion that the divorce rate is on the rise and that most marriage will not remain intact over time. It is likely Barnies opinion is influenced by

• overconfidence

• mental set

• availability heuristic

• belief perseverance

Divergent thinking is...

• focused, logical reasoning about ideas and experiences that lead to specific answers

• generation of ideas that are new as well as useful, productive, and appropriate

• always a bad idea

• ideas that are open-ended and that lead in many directions

The athletic intelligence seen in the smart split-second responses of highly skilled tennis players best illustrates the value of

• intuition

• divergent thinking

• extrinsic motivation

• an algorithm

Vivid memories of highly improbable dangers can lead us to overestimate their likelihood and thus fear the wrong things. This best illustrates the impact of

• fixation

• confirmation bias

• belief perseverance

• the availability heuristic

Pigeons can reliably discriminate pictures of cars from pictures of chairs. This best illustrates their capacity to form

• rules of syntax

• heuristics

• concepts

• algorithms

Creative thinking is:

• drawing the solutions

• takes too long

• airy fairy

• open ended, divergent and imaginative

Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to:

• Allow preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning
• Cling to one’s initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
• Search randomly through alternative solutions when problem solving
• Look for information that is consistent with one’s beliefs

The tendency for people to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the past is known as

• top-down processing

• confirmation bias

• creativity

• divergent thinking

• mental set

Even though research has overwhelmingly shown that driving and texting causes more vehicular accidents and fatalities a year than does drunk driving, Shannon still believes that she is "good at it" and chooses to ignore those facts. This is an example of:

• Algorithim

• Heuristic

• Overconfidence

• Belief Perseverance

• Framing