Thinking, Problem-Solving, Judgments, & Decision-Making

Which of the following is a key component of decision-making?

• Guessing

• Analyzing options

• Ignoring facts

• Acting impulsively.

Problem-solving involves identifying a problem and ______.

• ignoring it

• making it worse

• finding a solution

• avoiding it

What is cognition?

• The process of physical growth

• The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

• The act of eating and drinking

• The process of sleeping and dreaming.

Forming _______ is a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.

• schemas

• concepts

• prototypes

• categories

What is considered the prototype when people are asked to think of a cat?

• Lion

• House cat

• Tiger

• Cheetah

When you encounter a new animal and try to fit it into your existing schema, this process is called ________.

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Prototyping

• Categorization

What is an algorithm?

• A random guess

• A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees a solution to a problem

• A simple thinking strategy

• A type of food.

In an algorithm, you would see ____ + 17 = 42 and plug in every number possible until you found the right one. What number fits in the blank?

• 25

• 24

• 23

• 22

What is intuition in decision-making?

• A) A slow, deliberate process

• B) An effortless, immediate feeling or thought

• C) A logical reasoning method

• D) A statistical analysis technique.

The Representative Heuristic involves estimating the likelihood of events based on how closely they resemble a particular ______.

• Calculation

• Prototype

• Statistic

• Emotion