GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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functional fixedness
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a mental set
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a representative heuristic
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insight learning
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is d. They are obstacles to problem-solving. These both basically relate to a person who can only see things in a specific way.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mental set, in basic terms, refers to the tendency to stick to solutions that have worked for you in the past when trying to solve a problem. In trying to make these familiar solutions work, you typically end up overlooking or ignoring other possible solutions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Functional fixedness is when one fails to find an object to solve a problem. For example if one had no hammer to hammer in a nail and didn’t realize he could use his bat, he could not figure out how to drive a nail.
Detailed explanation-4: -2) Experts knowledge is organized differently from novices-(Chi 1982-physics problems, novices sorted them by surface features, what they looked like, while experts sorted by structural features, underlying principles involved.