Letty has a very complex problem to solve. She decides to break the problem down into smaller, more manageable problems. Which strategy best describes what Letty is doing?
a. insight heuristic
b. backward-working heuristic c. creating subgoals
d. means-end heuristic e. functional fixedness
c
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A. running records and episodic records. B. natural-use records and controlled-use records. C. selective-deposit records and selective-survival records. D. none of these
When Carrie tells her mother "I want," her mother asks, "What do you want?" This is an example of
a. prompting. b. scaffolding. c. expansion. d. induction.
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts" actually means
a. there is more to perception than meets the eye. b. that people have an innate tendency to organize the elements of a stimulus into a whole object. c. the meaning of a visual stimulus cannot be recognized by mere analysis of its separate elements. d. that human perception is more than the activities that compose it, such as thinking and planning. e. in order to perceive an entire stimulus, more modules of the primary visual cortex are involved than to perceive individual elements of the stimulus.
In addition to providing structural support and protection for the axon of a neuron, what other very important function is served by the presence of a myelin sheath?
a. Dendritic stimulation b. Speeding up and strengthening neural messages. c. Facilitating re-uptake in the synaptic gap. d. Inhibiting the growth of pain-sensitive neurons.