Author Question: Informal, intuitive, and often speculative shortcuts in thinking that may solve a problem but are ... (Read 78 times)

Starlight · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Informal, intuitive, and often speculative shortcuts in thinking that may solve a problem but are not guaranteed to do so.

a. functional fixedness
b. a hasty generalization
c. mental set
d. heuristics

Question 2

Mr. Talbot presents the following syllogism to his class. Premise A: Spot is bigger than Fluffy. Premise B: Fluffy is bigger than Patches. Which dog is the biggest? Which kind of syllogism is Mr. Talbot presenting?

a. linear
b. discriminatory
c. categorical
d. conditional