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

• Insight

• Heuristic

• Prototype

• Algorithm

• Retrieval

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

What is the smallest form of language that can carry meaning?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Grammar

• Babbling

• Critical Periods Hypothesis

Which theory says that if a child does not learn a language of any kind by the age of 7, they will never be able to master a language?

• Insight

• Intuition

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Critical Periods

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.