Suppose that a friend has given you several dozen plastic bottles. You immediately try to think of a variety of creative uses for these bottles. The task you are currently working on is most similar to

a. situated cognition
b. a divergent-production task.
c. an extrinsic-motivation task.
d. the hill-climbing heuristic.

Ans: b

Psychology

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A) stimulus generalization B) stimulus adaptation C) response generalization D) transfer of habit strength

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Which of the following is a likely cause of choking under pressure?

a) Interference of conscious thoughts in an automatic proces b) Interference of unconscious anxiety in a conscious process c) Interference of emotional processes in semantic retrieval d) Interference of competing conscious thoughts due to anxiety

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