Problem Solving & Creativity

The Gestalt approach to problem-solving is characterized by...

• Non-insight problems

• Restructuring of information

• Algorithms

• Creativity

Computers are better at solving...

• well-defined problems

• ill-defined problems

• semi-defined problems

• definitively-defined problems

Insight refers to....

• Prior learning facilitating problem solving

• Prior learning hindering problem solving

• The tendency to respond in a certain manner, based on past experience

• The sudden realization of a problem's solution

Functional fixedness would be LOWEST for a(n)....

• Brand new object

• Familiar object

• Frequently used object

• Object with a specific function

Illustrative of functional fixedness, people are more likely to solve the candle problem if...

• fewer tacks are provided

• pliers are also presented

• the box is empty

• the candle is already lit

Novices are better than experts at...

• General knowledge

• Thinking outside of the box

• Picking up on patterns

• Organizing the solution to a problem

In the movie Apollo 13, astronauts aboard a damaged spacecraft have to build a carbon dioxide filter out of random items that are aboard the ship with them. If they do not, they will all die rapidly of carbon dioxide poisoning. The fact that they are able to do so with the help of experts on Earth is most similar to _________________.

• Convergent thinking

• Creative cognition

• Divergent thinking

• Means-end analysis

The RAT task is an example of...

• Convergent thinking

• Mental set

• Divergent thinking

• Analogical encoding

Which of the following is considered something that creative people do differently?

• Mindfulness

• Deep analysis

• Expertise

• Social activities