Describe the mental barriers to problem solving
What will be an ideal response?
A person may have misidentified what the problem is in the first place. Other problem-solving obstacles include mental sets, self-imposed limits, functional fixedness, lack of knowledge or interest, fatigue or stress. Bias can be an issue (such as availability, representativeness, hindsight, confirmation, and anchoring).
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Consider these suicidal patients: Mary is in the depths of a severe depression. Jack is hospitalized for depression. Patty has just gotten her first weekend pass from the psychiatric hospital. Who is at highest risk for suicide?
a. Mary b. Jack c. Patty d. Mary and Patty are equally high risks.
Which of the following has been shown to help people relax, feel less pain, and make better progress in therapy?
a. stimulus control b. hypnosis c. lucid dreaming d. the use of microsleeps
Hermann Ebbinghaus found that the forgetting of memories is a linear process that happens gradually over time
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The study of environmental factors that turn genes on and off and are passed to the next generation is referred to as ______.
a. epigenetics b. Mendel’s first law of segregation c. Mendel’s second law of assortment d. the Genome Project