Cognitive Psychology Ch 12 Quiz

The best description of the purpose of think-aloud protocols is that they are used to determine

what information a person is attending to while solving a problem

People are most successful at noticing an analogous relationship between problems if they focus on

surface features

Janet is alone in a room that contains a chair and a shelf with a book resting on top. She attempts to retrieve the book, but the shelf is a foot above her reach. How will Janet retrieve the book? Psychologists would NOT classify this scenario as a problem because

the solution is immediately obvious.

Which of the following provides the best example of functional fixedness?

Using a juice glass as a container for orange juice

The ability to transfer experience from one problem solving situation to a similar problem is known as

analogical transfer

The typical purpose of subgoals is to

bring the problem solver closer and closer to the goal state

Divergent thinking is most closely associated with ___ problems

ill-defined

The elements of the problem space include all of the following except

operators

Gestalt psychologists consider problem solving as a process involving

restructuring.

The information processing approach describes problem solving as a process involving

search