A mechanical solution to a problem is one in which
a. the answer is arrived at by using the representativeness heuristic.
b. the answer is arrived at by intuition.
c. a learned set of rules is used in answering the problem.
d. general and functional techniques are used in answering the problem.
C
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The "telephone game" is often played by children. One child creates a story and whispers it to a second child, who does the same to a third child, and so on. When the last child recites the story to the group, his or her reproduction of the story is generally shorter than the original and contains many omissions and inaccuracies. This game shows how memory is a process
a. life-narrative b. narrative-rehearsal c. consequentiality based d. constructive
Linus has always enjoyed long walks through the woods, but recently, after several highly publicized attacks on hikers by bears, he finds himself fearful of going on a hike. Linus is using a(n) ____
a. ?affective heuristic b. ?biased heuristic c. ?inductive heuristic d. ?availability heuristic
What was a dependent variable in this study?
(a) whether the learning was alone or in front of an audience (b) the number of trials it took for the subjects to learn (c) the list of nonsense syllables (d) the difficulty of the list of nonsense syllables (e) none of the above
An object's elevation in our visual field is a perspective cue to ______
a. distance c. shadowing b. shape d. size