COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
Daniel was asked to write down as many words as he could think of that contained the letter d. To complete this task Daniel would rely on
|
|
the availability heuristic.
|
|
|
divergent thinking.
|
|
|
framing.
|
|
|
convergent thinking.
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Fixation: An inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective. This impedes problem solving. An example of fixation is functional fixedness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following was cited by Whorf as evidence in support of the linguistic determinism hypothesis? the representativeness heuristic.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements is true of convergent thinking? It works best when a problem has only one right answer.
Detailed explanation-4: -The availability heuristic occurs when we judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily we can recall similar events. If we can vividly remember instances of that event, we deem it to be more common than it actually is.
There is 1 question to complete.