Identify the strategy used in the example below. Choose from: trial and error, algorithm, heuristic, insight, representativeness heuristic, availability heuristic, and single-feature model.

Laura is attempting to construct a house out of LEGO building blocks. She tries blocks of different shapes until she finds one that fits.

How can critical thinking skills help you avoid these stumbling blocks to logical thinking?

How could the phenomenon of source confusion be used to describe the production of false memories?

Beyond the logical fallacies explained, what might motivate people to maintain beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence?

Name the psychologist who is described by the statement below. Choose from: Binet, Terman, Wechsler, Spearman, Thurstone, Gardner, Sternberg.

American psychologist who translated and adapted Binet’s intelligence test for use in the United States.

Select the name of the associated person from the description below:

Eric Kandel, George Sperling, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Richard F. Thompson, Elizabeth Loftus, Karl Lashley.

The psychologist who was one of the first people to scientifically study memory and forgetting

Select the name of the associated person from the description below:

Eric Kandel, George Sperling, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Richard F. Thompson, Elizabeth Loftus, Karl Lashley.

The psychologist who succeeded in identifying the particular brain location of a simple classically conditioned response

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Temporary storage of new information; interaction with stored information

Professor Ivanovich has many vivid memories of her students from last semester and can remember most of their names. She is having problems remembering her new students’ names this semester because of ________________.

a. retroactive interference

b. proactive interference

c. decay

d. suppression

Identify the strategy used in the example below. Choose from: trial and error, algorithm, heuristic, insight, representativeness heuristic, availability heuristic, and single-feature model.

You are asked to complete the following sequence: O, T, T, F, F, _, _, _, _, . You suddenly realize that the answer is obvious: S, S, E, N, T.

Rob has a very vivid memory of a bad traffic accident that happened near his home when he was a child. His mother, however, claims that Rob couldn’t have witnessed the incident because he was in bed, asleep, when it happened, and he had learned about the accident from television news reports. Rob’s false memory is probably the result of:

a. retrieval cue failure

b. repression

c. flashbulb interference

d. source confusion

Identify the strategy used in the example below. Choose from: trial and error, algorithm, heuristic, insight, representativeness heuristic, availability heuristic, and single-feature model.

Jack, who works as a bank teller, is stunned when a well-dressed, old woman pulls out a gun and tells him to hand over all the money in his cash drawer.

Identify the statement below if it is true or false:

Because they had so much difficulty attempting to identify human behaviors that might be instinctual, early psychologists abandoned instinct theories as an explanation of human motivation.

Identify the description below if it is a characteristic of sensory memory (SM), short-term memory (STM), or long-term memory (LTM).

Limited capacity of about seven items