AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prompt feedback regarding your performance on psychology practice tests is most likely to inhibit: Response: overconfidence.

Detailed explanation-2: -How does the concept of overconfidence influence your decisions or judgements in both helpful and detrimental ways? The tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements.

Detailed explanation-3: -Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples that employ heuristics include using trial and error, a rule of thumb or an educated guess.

Detailed explanation-4: -A heuristic is a mental shortcut commonly used to simplify problems and avoid cognitive overload. Heuristics are part of how the human brain evolved and is wired, allowing individuals to quickly reach reasonable conclusions or solutions to complex problems.

Detailed explanation-5: -Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that impacts an individual’s ability to be creative. Functional fixedness is commonly used to describe why an individual develops an inability to use an object in more ways than it is traditionally intended to be used, as function fixedness impairs their creativity.