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AP U5 Q2

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Social Studies

11th Grade

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Created by

Rachel Holencik

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12 questions

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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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