Understanding the Problem
What are the three components of a problem?
What is the initial stage, goal state, and obstacles?
What is an algorithm in problem solving?
What is a step-by step strategy that always leads to a solution.
What is divergent production?
What is generating multiple different solutions to a problem
What does paying attention to inconsistencies in a problem help with?
What is understanding the problem more accurately.
Name one heuristic strategy.
What is the analogy, means-end, or hill- climbing heuristic
What type of motivation tends to increase creativity?
What is intrinsic motivation
What problem-solving aid is especially helpful for tracking categorical info?
What is matrix
What is the main disadvantage of the Hill-Climbing Heuristic?
What is it may lead you to choose a short- term gain and miss a better long term solution.
What is the stereotype threat effect shown in Shih et al. (1999)’s study?
What is that reminding participants of gender lowered performance, while reminding them of ethnicity improved it.
What is functional fixedness?
What is the tendency to see objects as having only their usual function
What is a "problem isomorph"?
What is a set of problems that have the same structure but different surface features?
What is mental set?
What is to use an old solution even when a new one is easier.
What does the term “problem representation” refer to?
What is translating the elements of a problem into a different format?
In the Elves-and-Goblins problem, why is moving backwards sometimes necessary?
What is to reduce the difference between the current and goal state in a subproblem
According to Metcalfe (1986), what does a sudden leap in confidence indicate?
What is that you're about to solve an insight problem.