WEEK 4: Thinking

Question 1

What type of reasoning from specific observations to general propositions

1. Deductive reasoning
2. Analogical
3. Inductive reasoning

Answer 1

Inductive reasoning

Question 2

Drawing conclusions from premises

1. Deductive reasoning
2. Analogical
3. Inductive reasoning

Answer 2

Deductive reasoning

Question 3

Understanding a new situation in terms of a familiar one

1. Deductive reasoning
2. Analogical
3. Inductive reasoning

Answer 3

Analogical

Question 4

What is the process of transforming one situation into another to meet a goal?

1. Problem solving
2. Decision making

Answer 4

Problem solving

Question 5

Is the process by which people weigh the pros and cons of different alternatives in order to make a choice

1. Problem solving
2. Decision making

Answer 5

Decision making

Question 6

what type of psychology studies of the mental processes by which the information we receive from the environment is modified, made meaningful, stored, retrieved, used and communicated to others

1. Cognitive psychology
2. Social psychology
3. Developmental psychology
4. Clinical psychology

Answer 6

Cognitive psychology

Question 7

(Something) is the manipulation of mental representations

1. Information processing system
2. Problem solving
3. Thinking
4. Connectionism

Answer 7

Thinking