Define brainstorming and discuss the expectation and reality of its effectiveness
What will be an ideal response?
Brainstorming is a process whereby people meet as a group to generate new ideas. Traditionally, it has been assumed that more creative output will emerge through brainstorming than when the same people work as individuals. However, in contrast to this expectation, brainstorming does not on the whole result in more creative ideas being generated than if the same people worked alone.
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Suppose that you are looking at a simple geometric design. If you were to perceive it holistically you would
a. first analyze it into parts, and then assemble the parts into a whole. b. use a visual template that precisely matches the shape of the entire stimulus. c. recognize it in terms of its overall structure and shape. d. compare it with a set of features stored in memory.
Ebbinghaus found that ________
a. the rate of forgetting increased after the first few hours b. forgetting occurred at a fairly steady pace c. the rate of forgetting was slow during the first few hours, increased during the period of 6 to 12 hours after learning, then decreased again after 12 hours d. the longer he waited to relearn a list of words, the more time it took for the relearning to occur.