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chads108

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Suppose that Ramn is a Latino college student who is taking a course in engineering. He is about to take the first exam in this course. He looks around the room and notices that he appears to be the only Latino student in the class.
 
  Ramn is likely to experience
   a. functional fixedness.
   b. bottom-up processing.
   c. stereotype threat.
   d. intrinsic motivation.

Question 2

In functional fixedness,
 
  a. if an object has one particular function, we realize that the object can also be used in other capacities.
  b. we realize that a problem can be solved most efficiently by the hill-climbing heuristic.
  c. we rely too heavily on bottom-up processing.
  d. we assign a particular use to an object, and that use tends to remain stable.


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upturnedfurball

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

Ans: d


chads108

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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