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Hockenbury & Hockenbury, Discovering Psychology, 7e 6. A neuropsychologist asked her patient to perform the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) in order to obtain a measure of his executive functioning. In the WCST, the participant is presented with a number of stimulus cards containing shapes and colors. The participant is not told how to sort the cards (e.g., by color, by shape, by number of shapes), but is told whether a particular match is correct or incorrect. Which of the following types of problem-solving strategies is MOST likely used in the WCST? a. trial and error b. algorithms c. heuristics d. intuition 7. Mary is a professional counselor facing an ethical dilemma. Her client, who is a minor, has recently disclosed some personal information, and Mary is not sure whether she should disclose this information to the child's parents. Mary determines that her decision will be based solely on the confidentiality law that states if a child is not in imminent danger, then confidentiality must be maintained. Mary's decision to maintairn confidentiality BEST reflects which of the following decision-making strategies? a. the additive model b. the elimination by aspects model c. the availability heuristic model d. the single-feature model are individual instances of a concept or category that we store in memory. a. Concepts b. Algorithms c. Prototypes d. Exemplars ehtoe birthday narty MattieExplanation / Answer
6. C.
The items in the WCST test the ability of the individual to alternate between different mental sets. The different items are most likely to be answered using heuristics as a problem solving strategy wherein the participants
7. D
This approach involves hinging one’s decision on on a single feature of the problem such as the ethical clause about minimising harm to the client in case of breaking confidentiality.
8. C.
Prototypes determine the typicality of an object or event as a descriptive category for a groups of other similar objects such as The term PENGUIN describes the singlular instance within the category of bird’.
9.c
According to the psychologist Whorf, language influences thought as shown in the experiments on colour perception and the effect of words used for specific colours in determining the participants response to a particular colour.