The foundation for several other thinking skills.
a. automaticity
b. problem solving
c. transfer
d. reasoning
Ques. 2When people use this heuristic, they judge the probability that a particular event or object belongs to a certain category by how obviously it resembles the population from which it comes.
a. availability heuristic
b. overconfidence
c. representative heuristic
d. mental set
Ques. 3Informal, intuitive, and often speculative shortcuts in thinking that may solve a problem but are not guaranteed to do so.
a. functional fixedness
b. a hasty generalization
c. mental set
d. heuristics
Ques. 4Mr. Talbot presents the following syllogism to his class. Premise A: Spot is bigger than Fluffy. Premise B: Fluffy is bigger than Patches. Which dog is the biggest? Which kind of syllogism is Mr. Talbot presenting?
a. linear
b. discriminatory
c. categorical
d. conditional
Ques. 5With this, it is not possible to have logical certainty, because there is always the chance that the next observation you make will disconfirm what all the previous observations have confirmed.
a. inductive reasoning
b. deductive reasoning
c. automaticity
d. transfer
Ques. 6If an animal is a robin, then it is a bird. This animal is a robin. Is it a bird? Which kind of syllogism is this?
a. conditional
b. categorical
c. linear
d. discriminatory
Ques. 7The process of drawing conclusions from evidence.
a. reasoning
b. problem solving
c. transfer
d. critical thinking