Exam 9: Complex Cognitive Processes

Ken is reading his notes from science class. He wants to organize information the teacher presented about erosion-the causes, the effects, and relationships between weather conditions and erosion. He needs an effective learning strategy. Which of the following tools seems most likely to help Ken meet his goal?

Analogical thinking is a type of heuristic that limits one's search for solutions to problems that have something in common.

Metacognition is best defined as

Case Studies The eighth-grade class is preparing for its annual "School Scam Skit" in which it parodies amusing school events during the year. Alonzo discovers that, by mistake, the class has sold 500 tickets for an auditorium that has a seating capacity of 200. The auditorium is not available any other night, and the class doesn't have funds available to rent a suitable room elsewhere. Numerous possible solutions may exist, but the class is feeling panicked. Describe how a class committee might attempt to approach the problem using each of the following strategies. [Note: Some strategies might not be effective. Also, you do not need to derive a solution, given that you do not have all the information needed. The main interest is the procedures that you use.] -Analogical thinking:

Researchers have found that for fourth and fifth graders, general problem-solving strategies are better than specific strategies.

When students do not have existing schemas that suggest an immediate solution to the problem, they must take a schema-driven route to solve the problem.

Describe a problem that a student may encounter (either in or out of school) and show how one could solve that particular problem using each of the two general kinds of procedures outlined in the text. For each procedure, outline one advantage and one disadvantage.

An important part of becoming an expert in a field is ________ knowledge.

One reason why strategies such as READS are effective is because they require students to study in sections instead of learning all the information at once. This would be most similar to which heuristic?

The main difficulty that occurs when students are too quick to decide what a problem asks is that they may

An algorithm is a general strategy that might lead to the right answer to a problem.

Which type of problem fixation does Keri manifest when she refuses to take a different route home from work, even though it will add 25 minutes to her daily commute from work?

What heuristic is Felita most likely applying when she assumes her husband will be late to pick her up since he has been late the last three evenings?

Formulating new answers by going beyond the simple application of previously learned rules to reach a goal is ________.

Which one of the following students BEST illustrates the state of functional fixedness?

Practicing basic skills such as multiplication tables until they begin to become automated is described as _________.

Hernando looked at the problem and exclaimed: "Aha! This is just like when Ahab was obsessed with the great white whale, Moby Dick!" This comment is the result of

Current beliefs about problem-solving techniques suggest that domain-specific strategies are

What can teachers do to support and encourage creativity in the classroom?

Knowledge about out own thinking processes is _________.