Problem solving practice quiz

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

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

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.

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

• fixation.

• the representativeness heuristic.

• belief perseverance.

• the availability heuristic.

• the framing effect.

Advertisers know that a thirty-three percent discount sounds like a better deal than a discount of one third.  This best illustrates:

• framing.
• belief bias.
• representativeness heuristics.
• confirmation bias.

Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as: 

• the representativeness heuristic.
• belief perseverance.
• confirmation bias.
• functional fixedness.

A strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how easily other instances of the event are available in memory is called the:

• Availability heuristic
• Availability algorithm
• Representativeness heuristic
• Representativeness algorithm

The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to

• make judgments in a very inefficient, time-consuming fashion.

• overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge and judgments.

• search for information that supports our preconceptions.

• judge the likelihood of events on the basis of how easily we can remember examples of them.

As he attempted to spell the word “receive,” Tim reminded himself “i before e except after c.” Tim's self-reminder best illustrates the use of

• a heuristic.

• an algorithm.

• trial and error.

• insight.

Wording a question or presenting an issue in such a way that it evokes a desired judgment is called

• telegraphic speech.

• framing.

• stereotype threat.

• belief perseverance.