Problem-Solving Strategies and Models

A problem-solving strategy that involves attempting different solutions and eliminating those that do not work.

A problem-solving strategy that involves following a specific rule, procedure, or method that inevitably produces the correct solution.

A problem-solving strategy that involves following a general rule of thumb to reduce the number of possible solutions.

<p>The sudden realization of how a problem can be solved.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to view objects as functioning only in their usual or customary way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to persist in solving problems with solutions that have worked in the past.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A decision-making strategy that simplifies the choice among many alternatives based on a single feature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strategy for complex decisions that systematically evaluates the important features of each alternative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A decision-making model that evaluates alternatives one characteristic at a time, eliminating those that don't meet criteria.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated based on how readily available other instances of the event are in memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strategy in which the likelihood of an event is estimated by comparing how similar it is to the prototype of the event.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hypothesis that differences among languages cause differences in the thoughts of their speakers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A French psychologist who developed procedures to identify students requiring special help.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologist at Stanford who revised Binet's findings into the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A measure of general intelligence derived by comparing an individual's score with the scores of others in the same age group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The administration of a test to a representative sample of people under uniform conditions to establish norms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reliability refers to the consistency of test results, while validity refers to the accuracy of what a test measures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A British psychologist who proposed that a single factor, the g factor, underlies many different kinds of mental abilities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologist who proposed that mental abilities are independent and identified multiple intelligences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychologist who believes intelligence is broader than what traditional IQ tests measure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A researcher who identified the concept of stereotype threat, where negative expectations impair performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A phoneme is a distinct unit of sound, whereas a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of rules that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, including word order.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to produce sentences never before said and to understand sentences never before heard.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present.</p> Signup and view all the answers