According to the research on expertise and problem solving,
a. expert chess-players are much better than novices at remembering random arrangements of chess pieces.
b. expert problem-solvers are more likely than novices to emphasize structural features in the representation of a problem.
c. experts and novices are similar in their usage of means-ends heuristics.
d. experts are skilled at judging whether a problem will be difficult for novices to solve.
Question 2Suppose that you have always prepared a casserole in a certain fashion. Then you buy a food processor. It would be most efficient to prepare the ingredients in a new order, but you follow your old, familiar order. The strategy that you are using is
a. the hill-climbing heuristic.
b. a mental set.
c. parallel processing.
d. divergent production.
Question 3Chapter 11 compared howon some tasksexperts and novices use parallel processing. According to this discussion,
a. novices use parallel processing more than experts do.
b. experts use parallel processing more than novices do.
c. when researchers have controlled for the kind of problem that is being solved, experts and novices make similar use of parallel processing.
d. both experts and novices make too much use of parallel processing.
Question 4According to the discussion of problem-solving expertise in Chapter 11,
a. expertise is typically defined in terms of problem-solving speed, rather than problem-solving accuracy.
b. in some fields, expertise is not strongly correlated with the number of years of experience.
c. true experts can acquire their expertise without extensive practice because they truly seem to be born with their skills.
d. experts tend to have an especially well-developed working memory for general information, not just in their area of expertise.
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