8. Cognition

As Carol sat at her workstation and daydreamed about being at the beach, she could actually see in her mind the sand, the water, and the blue sky. Carol was creating a _____ of the beach.

Vegetables, fruit, vehicles, and animals are all examples of _____, or categories of objects.

Derrick lives in the rugged mountains, so whenever he hears the word vehicle, the first thing that comes to mind is a jeep. For Derrick, a jeep is a(n) _____ for vehicle.

In the brain, creating a mental image is _____ seeing an actual image.

William's alarm clock went off, and he knew what he had to do. In waking up and getting ready for class in the morning, William would most likely follow a(n)

A mental image that is larger and covers more distance

Mechanical solutions may involve solving by

The representativeness heuristic can be used to create and sustain

A useful heuristic that works much of the time is

Writing a term paper may be best approached by using

A boy and his father are in a car crash. The father is killed, and the boy is rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, the doctor says, "I cannot operate on this boy. He's my son!" How is this possible? If a person thinks about this problem without using a particular method, and the answer just comes to them after a period of time, the person solved this problem with

Erik dropped a note under his car seat and could not find it. He looked all through the glove compartment for a flashlight so that he could get a better look under his seat. He later realized he could have just held his cell phone under the seat to help illuminate the area. This is an example of

People who believe that aliens have come to Earth may disregard evidence that crop circles are human-made. This is an example of

You are vacuuming the floor when the vacuum cleaner suddenly stops working. You dump the contents of the vacuum, thinking it may be too full. It does not start. You remove the plug and replace it, pushing it in as far as it can go. Still nothing. You take the plug and put it into a different wall socket. It works! You have solved the problem of the malfunctioning vacuum cleaner by using

Sabrina's statistics instructor assigns math homework every week that requires Sabrina to solve mathematical problems using formulas. Sabrina is making use of what method of problem solving to complete her statistics homework?