Research
How do you put a giraffe in a refrigerator?
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A cognitive bias that impacts an individual's ability to be creative.
What is functional fixedness?
This term refers to anticipated emotional states associated with a given decision that are never actually experienced.
What is expected emotion?
The tendency for a person to interpret or remember information in a manner that is consistent with their existing beliefs.
What is the confirmation bias?
Observing people to determine how they solve problems in real-world situations.
What is In-vivo problem solving?
What is analogical problem solving?
In decision making research, oitcomes that achieve a persons goals.
What is utility?
When we're trying to assess how likely a certain event is, we often make our decision by assessing how similar it is to an existing mental prototype.
What is the representativeness heuristic?
This analogical problem helps people solve the mutilated checkerboard problem.
What is the Russian marriage problem?
The sudden realization of a problem’s solution.
What is insight?
A logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.
What is deductive reasoning?
An emotional bias; a preference for the maintenance of one's current or previous state of affairs, or a preference to not undertake any action to change this current or previous state.
What is the status quo?
This type of research uses warmth judgments.
What is insight vs not insight problem solving research?
The problem solver begins by envisioning the end, or ultimate goal, and then determines the best strategy for attaining the goal in his current situation.
What is means end analysis?
The key to solving the Wason four-card problem.
What is the falsification principle?
The tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly and easily when making decisions about the future.
What is the availability heuristic?
The concurrent verbalization of thoughts while performing a task.
What is the think aloud protocol?
Gestalt psychologists believed this was the key to solving problems.
What is restructuring or reframing?
The conclusion follows logically from the two premises.
What is a valid syllogism?
An inference from an array of particulars, in violation of the laws of probability, that a conjoint set of two or more conclusions is likelier than any single member of that same set.
What is the conjunction fallacy?