AP U5 Q2

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Social Studies
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11th Grade
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Rachel Holencik
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Leah believes that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player that ever lived! When she searches google, she uses searches like "Why is Michael Jordan the best basketball player?" and "Prove no one is better than Michael Jordan".
This is an example of:
confirmation bias
overconfidence
mental set
functional fixedness
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Carina wants to mix a new shade of purple for her painting. She could strategically mix one drop of blue at a time into her existing color, but instead, she uses what she knows to just mix a little blue, a little white, and then a little red, etc. until she gets the right shade.
Which type of problem-solving is she using?
insight
mental set
heuristic
algorithm
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Sometimes we have an ah-ha! moment. When we do, the formal term is "insight". Which area of our brain activates, according to neuroscientists, when this happens?
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
occipital lobe
cerebellum
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A mental grouping of similar objects, ideas, or people is a __________.
concept
prototype
category
schema
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Thinking inside the box is to _____ thought as thinking outside the box is to _____ thought.
static; dynamic
dynamic; static
convergent; divergent
divergent; convergent
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Kendall wanted a bed for his doll. He used his own money to buy one at the toy store. He could have saved his money and created a bed out of a shoebox that he had at home, but he never even thought of that box being used for anything other than storage.
This is an example of:
heuristics
misinformation effect
functional fixedness
mental set
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Your phone battery doesn't seem to be working correctly. In the past, if you restarted the phone, it corrected the problem. After restarting, the problem isn't fixed - so you restart again, only to find the problem remains.
You can't think of any other solutions. This is because of:
functional fixedness
insight
confirmation bias
a mental set
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