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True or false on thinkingRead the answer and worked solution →Pop what counts as thinkingRead the answer and worked solution →Type the thinking termRead the answer and worked solution →In problem solving, what does mental set mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tendency is called functional fixedness?Read the answer and worked solution →What is confirmation bias in problem solving?Read the answer and worked solution →What are unnecessary constraints?Read the answer and worked solution →What is irrelevant information?Read the answer and worked solution →Luchins's water jug tasks showed which barrier?Read the answer and worked solution →Failing to see a new use for pliers shows which barrier?Read the answer and worked solution →In the nine dots problem, how many straight line segments connect all the dots?Read the answer and worked solution →Which classic puzzle gave rise to the phrase think outside the box?Read the answer and worked solution →In Wason's 1960 task, new triplets mostly did what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group of experimental psychologists in Germany were among the first to study problem solving?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tower of Hanoi is what kind of task?Read the answer and worked solution →What marks a well-defined problem?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of problem allows more initial planning?Read the answer and worked solution →Problem solving has two major domains. Which pair is correct?Read the answer and worked solution →In psychology, with which step does the problem-solving process start?Read the answer and worked solution →In the psychological process, what comes right after generating possible solutions?Read the answer and worked solution →Using know-how from one problem on another is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the goal stack model, how many tasks does the mind carry out at one time?Read the answer and worked solution →The sudden aha solution to a problem is known as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy means breaking a large problem into smaller solvable ones?Read the answer and worked solution →A child adapts the way she solved an earlier puzzle to a new puzzle with similar features. Which strategy is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy suggests a large number of ideas, then combines and develops them?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy tests possible solutions until the right one is found?Read the answer and worked solution →Choosing an action at each step to move closer to the goal is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Approaching solutions indirectly and creatively is known as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy assumes a possible explanation and tries to prove or disprove it?Read the answer and worked solution →

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True or false on thinking

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Thinking underlies all cognitive activity.
  2. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Thinking is usually aimless.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Thinking is an internal mental process.
  4. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Thinking can be watched directly.
Instructions
Decide whether each statement is true or false.
_Source: syllabus Psychology, Ch 8 'Thinking'_

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Pop what counts as thinking

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Other terms
  1. Salivating
  2. Digesting
  3. Sweating
  4. Blinking
Matching terms
  1. Reasoning
  2. Imagining
  3. Judging
  4. Problem solving
Instructions
Pop the mental acts of thinking. Leave the others alone.
_Source: syllabus Psychology, Ch 8 'Thinking'_

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Type the thinking term

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Questions
  1. reasoning
  2. imagining
  3. judging
  4. abstracting
Instructions
Tap the letters in order to spell each term.
_Source: syllabus Psychology, Ch 8 'Thinking'_

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