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Insight & Intuition
Reinforcement & Punishment
Definitions
Problem Solving, Decision Making & Heuristics
Mystery
100
Coming to a conclusion or making a judgement without conscious awareness of the thought process involved.
What is Intuition
100
Feeling sorry for a hitchhiker on the side of the road, Howard offered him a ride. The hitchhiker robbed Howard and stole his car. Howard no longer picks up hitchhikers because of ___________________.
What is Punishment by Removal OR Negative Punishment
100
A process that produces a relatively enduring change in behavior or knowledge as a result of past experience.
What is Learning
100
Laura lost the correct combination code to a lock. To find the answer, she goes through every possible combination starting at 0-0-0 followed by 0-0-1 and so forth until she finds the correct combination. Identify the problem solving technique.
What is Algorithm
100
The gradual weakening and apparent disappearance of conditioned behavior.
What is Extinction
200
The sudden realization of how a problem can be solved.
What is Insight.
200
When Joan turns the grocery cart down the candy aisle, her 3 year-old son, Connor, starts screaming "Want Candy! Candy!" Joan moves to another aisle, but Connor continues to scream. As other shoppers begin staring and Joan starts to feel embarrassed, she finally gives Connor a bag of M&M's. Connor is now more likely to scream in a store when he wants candy because he has experienced ________________.
What is Positive Reinforcement
200
The manipulation of mental representations of information in order to draw inferences and conclusions.
What is Thinking.
200
After seeing news reports about a teenager being killed in a freak accident on a roller coaster, Angela refuses to allow her son to go to the amusement park with his friends. What term best describes this problem solving process?
What is Availability Heuristic
200
What are 3 heuristic strategies for problem solving?
What are Subgoals, Working Backwards, and Flexibility
300
The _______ _________ is a stage within Intuition where you perceive pattern in information, but not consiously.
What is Guided Stage
300
Jacob is caught surfing inappropriate websites on the computer in his office and gets reprimanded by his boss. Jacob no longer accesses X-rated websites on his office computer because of __________________.
What is Positive Punishment or Punishment by Application
300
A mental category that is formed by learning the rules or features that define it.
What is Formal Concept
300
One by one, Professor Goldstein tries each key on his keychain until she finds the one that opens the locked filing cabinet. Identify the problem-solving technique.
What is Trial and Error
300
What are the 3 models of decision-making?
What are the Single-Feature Model, the Additive Model, and the Elimination by Aspects Model
400
The _________ _______ is a stage within Intuition where a representation pattern becomes conscious, usually in the form of a hunch or a hypothesis.
What is Integrative Stage
400
Thinking she was making a good impression in her new job by showing how knowledgeable she was, Tanya corrected her supervisor's erroneous comments in 2 different meetings. Not long after the 2nd meeting, Tanya was "let go" because of her bad attitude. Because she experienced ________________, Tanya no longer publicly corrects her superiors.
What is Negative Punishment or Punishment by Removal
400
A mental category that is formed as a result of everyday experience.
What is Natural Concept
400
Jack, who works as a bank teller, is stunned when a well-dressed, elderly woman pulls out a gun and tells him to hand over all of the money in his cash drawer. Which problem solving method describes why he is 'stunned'?
What is Representative Heuristic
400
The basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with a response-producing stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response. Name the learning process & the Psychologist associated.
What are Classical Conditioning; Ivan Pavlov
500
While Julie is leaving work and getting on the bus, she suddenly realizes what she could write her final research paper about. This thought just appeard in Julie's head; she wasn't even trying to think of a paper topic. This is an example of __________.
What is Insight
500
As you walk out of the shoe store at the mall, you spot a person whom you greatly dislike. You immediately duck back into the shoe store to avoid an unpleasant interaction with them. Because _____________ has occurred, you are more likely to take evasive action when you encounter people you dislike in the future.
What is Negative Reinforcement
500
In learning theory, the idea that an organism is innately predisposed to form association between certain stimuli and responses.
What is Biological Preparedness
500
What are 2 obstacles to solving problems?
What is Functional Fixedness and Mental Set
500
The basic learning process that involves changing the probability that a response will be repeated by manipulating the consequences of that response. Name the learning process & the Psychologist associated.
What are Operant Conditioning; B.F. Skinner