Author Question: Researchers have studied the abilities of people to identify similarities among what are, on the ... (Read 65 times)

storky111 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Researchers have studied the abilities of people to identify similarities among what are, on the surface, different problems. What has this research found?

a. Similarities are easily identified when the problems are in the same context.
b. Individuals spontaneously identify similarities and use them in problem solving.
c. Individuals typically must explicitly look for similarities in order to find them.
d. Similarities are more easily identified when the problems are from different domains.

Question 2

Bertha completed a number of problems for an experiment. Two of the problems had the same underlying structure even though the surface features were different. She was able to adapt the solution for the first problem to the second using ____ problem solving.

a. fixated
b. heuristic
c. analogical
d. transparent