Exam 9: Complex Cognitive Processes

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.] -Working backwards:

Define the different types of transfer and create new examples of each.

In addition to having originality,creativity involves ________ motivation.

A heuristic is a step-by-step prescription for achieving a goal that usually is domain-specific.

The inability to recognize unconventional uses of familiar objects represents a barrier to problem solving that is referred to as ________.

Creativity is often equated with ________ thinking or the ability to generate many different ideas.

A pre-school teacher challenges her students to think about the many potential uses of a coffee pot beyond the typical use of serving coffee.One student could not move beyond her ________ and identify additional uses of the coffee pot beyond serving coffee.

Dividing a problem into a number of intermediate goals and then identifying a means of solving each subgoal is called ________.

Roberto,an eleventh grade student,rereads his poem for the third time and asks himself again "Is this poem finished?" Roberto is engaging in ________ thinking.

The aspect of means-end analysis that involves distance reduction means pursuing a path that moves directly to the goal.

Learning strategies are a special kind of ________ knowledge.

Which one of the following people illustrates the best example of creative behavior?

Frank was supposed to push three wheelbarrows back to the barn,and he wasn't relishing the idea of three trips.Then in a flash he reorganized the problem.He loaded two wheelbarrows onto the third and made one trip.In doing this,he demonstrated

The tendency to respond in the most familiar or rigid way is a response set.

Studies of expertise have discovered that chess masters are superior to nonexpert players in

________ is the ability to regulate one's thinking and learning.

Sometimes students do not apply the problem-solving strategy they have learned when they should or could.We refer to this type of situation as students having a(n)________.

What has research determined about the ways experts solve problems? How can students use this information to make themselves learn more like experts?

An example of backward-reaching transfer in which you search for other,related situations is ________ thinking.

Ms.Winn developed a new method of math instruction,which had a wide spread impact on education and revolutionalized the field of mathematics education.Ms.Winn is noted for her________,or innovation.