Cognition: "Problem Solving"

You are deciding between a new security system or a carbon monoxide detector. Due to the recent burglaries in your neighborhood, you end up purchasing a new security system. You did this because of:

• availability heuristic

• belief perseverance

• cognitive mapping

• latent learning

• mental set

You went to visit Lynchburg College and it just didn't feel like your ideal vision of what college should look/feel like. This is due to your _ of what an ideal college looks like.

• prototype

• overconfidence

• framing

• cognitive dissonance

• cognitive mapping

The Unit 4 test is next class but you feel like this unit has been pretty easy and decide not to study until the night before. This is due to:

• overconfidence

• heuristic

• framing

• representative heuristic

• insight learning

Which of these is a prototype for "fruit"?

• apple

• mango

• jackfruit

• carrot

Trying random keys until finding the one that unlocks the door is an example of:

• algorithm

• heuristic

• trial and error

• intuition

Solving a puzzle by testing random pieces in different places until it fits is using:

• algorithm

• prototype

• trial and error

• insight

Following a recipe exactly to bake a cake involves:

• intuition

• heuristic

• trial and error

• algorithm

Believing you are prone to contracting a rare disease because you heard about it in the news is an example of:

• availability heuristic

• sunk-cost fallacy

• algorithm

• belief perserverance

Struggling to see a spoon as anything but a tool for eating shows:

• Availability Heuristic

• Belief Bias

• Functional Fixedness

• Framing

What is the purpose of concept hierarchies in our mental organization?

• To help us think quickly and efficiently

• To create mental categories

• To organize physical objects

• To keep mental information organized