Ativan and Xanax reduce anxiety, tension, and fear by enhancing the effects of GABA

Suppose that you have always prepared a casserole in a certain fashion. Then you buy a food processor. It would be most efficient to prepare the ingredients in a new order, but you follow your old, familiar order. The strategy that you are using is

a. the hill-climbing heuristic. b. a mental set. c. parallel processing. d. divergent production.

When Just and Carpenter asked participants to report the relative heights of craftsmen

brothers based on a passage they had just read, their results showed that participants were slower at providing answers when information was directly available than when it was only implied. This was because the participants a. had problems caused by too much information. b. were making inferences based on mental models. c. were generally rather unpracticed with the formal logic required by deductive reasoning. d. were unable to arrange the abstract information into a spatial model. e. confused the type of reasoning that was called for.