Chp 10

Question 1

A precise, step-by-step set of rules that will reliably generate a solution to a problem.

Answer 1

Algorithm

Question 2

Atmir’s grandfather suffered a stroke and had difficulty producing speech afterward. With some effort, however, he could produce speech that generally made sense. The doctor indicated that the stroke caused damage to the left frontal lobe of the brain, leaving Atmir’s grandfather with a condition known as

Answer 2

Broca’s aphasia

Question 3

Internal mental processes including information processing, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.

Answer 3

Cognition

Question 4

The most forward of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex; location of the primary motor cortex and areas responsible for some of the most complex cognitive processes. Involved in reasoning, motor control, emotion, and language.

Answer 4

Frontal Lobes

Question 5

A possible barrier to successful problem solving in which a concept is considered only in its most typical form.

Answer 5

Functional Fixedness

Question 6

Cognitive processing involving making a selection of a belief or course of action among several possible outcomes. (Rational)

Answer 6

Good decision making

Question 7

A shortcut to problem solving; also known as a rule of thumb. Different types include recognition, availability, representativeness, and affect.

Answer 7

Heuristic

Question 8

How can schemas be used to learn new information about a concept?

Answer 8

We can predict new facts.

Question 9

Jasper has seven or eight password combinations that he uses routinely. However, Jasper has not visited a particular site in a while, and when the site asked for his username and password, Jasper couldn’t remember which one he had used before. How can Jasper develop a shortcut to quickly determine the correct password without having to request or change it?

Answer 9

Heuristic

Question 10

Strongly activates networks in the left hemisphere. The way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language.

Answer 10

Language Processing

Question 11

Our beliefs, expectations, and personal experience that can be applied to concepts is our

Answer 11

Schema

Question 12

Interferes with good problem solving because you use your emotions, learned beliefs, opinions, or attitudes that people are unaware of and often reinforce stereotypes

Answer 12

Personal biases

Question 13

The use of information to meet a specific goal

Answer 13

Problem Solving

Question 14

A set of expectations about objects and situations.

Answer 14

Schema

Question 15

Mental representations to signify information (ex: pic of a blue bird to represent Twitter)

Answer 15

Symbols