1.Initial studies with the Wason card-selection taskdemonstrated that:
a.People can reason with abstract material as well as they canreason with familiar/concrete material.
b.People are able to reason about categorical, but notconditional syllogisms.
c.People struggle performing deductive reasoning when examplesare abstract.
d.People are able to perform inductive reasoning when given ineveryday/concrete terms.
2.Which of the below is a case where altering problemrepresentation has been used to help problem solving?
a.Fixating on the traditional function of the pliers in thetwo-string problem.
b.Solving a logic problem using numbers and letters instead ofreal-world examples like drinking age and alcohol.
c.Gradually arriving at answer in an algebra problem.
d.Using “Bread” and “Butter” pairs of squares instead of blankspaces in mutilated-checkerboard problem
3.
Functional fixedness would be least likely to occur witha(n):
a.Novel object.
b.Familiar object.
c.Object with a specific function.
d.Frequently used object.
