AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -divergent thinking. allows a person to solve a problem without consciously working on it. incubation effect.

Detailed explanation-2: -How can the incubation effect help people solve problems? it lets our mind incubate while we work on other problems. when we come we might have a different mind set about the question.

Detailed explanation-3: -incubation – putting the problem aside for a while without consciously thinking about it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heuristics are simple, thinking strategies that allow us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently. Heuristics are less time consuming, but more error-prone than algorithms.

Detailed explanation-5: -(fixation). Fixation refers to looking at a certain problem from only one point and not being able to see it from any other perspective. The representative of fixation is mental set, which is simply using the same strategy to solve different problems because it led us to the correct answer in the past.