1.Initial studies with the Wason card-selection task demonstrated that:
a.People can reason with abstract material as well as they can reason with familiar/concrete material.
b.People are able to reason about categorical, but not conditional syllogisms.
c.People struggle performing deductive reasoning when examples are abstract.
d.People are able to perform inductive reasoning when given in everyday/concrete terms.
2.Which of the below is a case where altering problem representation has been used to help problem solving?
a.Fixating on the traditional function of the pliers in the two-string problem.
b.Solving a logic problem using numbers and letters instead of real-world examples like drinking age and alcohol.
c.Gradually arriving at answer in an algebra problem.
d.Using “Bread” and “Butter” pairs of squares instead of blank spaces in mutilated-checkerboard problem
3.
Functional fixedness would be least likely to occur with a(n):
a.Novel object.
b.Familiar object.
c.Object with a specific function.
d.Frequently used object.
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b.Age
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e.World View (how do we see the world/other countries/wars/etc.)
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