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1
Ralph was trying on a pair of jeans in a department store when the zipper got stuck and he could not get out of them. His girlfriend, Lauren, was waiting for him and was becoming increasingly impatient as she stood outside the fitting rooms. Ralph's distressful situation, in problem-solving terms, is known as what type of problem?
A)Arrangement
B)Means-end
C)Transformation
D)Production
2
Bobbi feels the furniture in her dorm room is too cramped. All of a sudden, she realizes that if she moves the bookcase, she will have extra room for her chair. Bobbi's sudden solution of the problem is an example of
A)means-end analysis.
B)working backward.
C)insight.
D)transformation.
3
Isaac is taking his SAT's and finds a problem in which he must identify a missing letter in an orderly sequence of letters. This is a(n) ___________________ type of problem:
A)arrangement
B)ill-defined
C)transformation
D)inducing structure
4
Thinking about an object only in terms of its most typical use is called
A)functional fixedness.
B)confirmation bias.
C)working backwards.
D)the availability heuristic.
5
In an arrangement problem, the solver must
A)rearrange or recombine elements in a particular way.
B)get an existing state to turn into a desired state.
C)determine the pattern of relationships among objects.
D)avoid looking at objects only in terms of conventional usages.





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