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Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 10

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) An insight problem
b) Flexibility-rigidity dimension
c) Functional fixedness
d) Perception

Question 2:


a) Structurally blind thinking on their part
b) Productive thinking on your part
c) Productive thinking on their part
d) Structurally blind thinking on your part and their part

Question 3:


a) The solution takes less time to appear.
b) The solution takes longer to appear.
c) The solution appears suddenly and without warning.
d) Insight solutions are preceded by a feeling of warmth.

Question 4:


a) Constraint relaxation and feeling of warmth
b) Feeling of knowing and feeling of warmth
c) Chunk decomposition and constraint relaxation
d) Feeling of knowing and chunk decomposition

Question 5:


a) Mindlessness
b) Functional fixedness
c) Mindfulness
d) Negative transfer

Question 6:


a) True
b) False

Question 7:


a) True
b) False

Question 8:


a) True
b) False

Question 9:


a) True
b) False

Question 10:


a) True
b) False