Solving Problems and Making Decisions

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Across
  1. 3. The inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing in the past.
  2. 5. He is remembered for his experiments on the mental abilities of apes.
  3. 6. We feel a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of happiness when this happens.
  4. 7. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
  5. 9. The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.
  6. 11. Its 1 of 3 strategies that assist our problem solving.
  7. 12. Refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that find a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal, but good enough for a given set of goals.
  8. 13. A tendency to approach a problem from a new perspective, by employing in the past.
Down
  1. 1. Some problems we solve through ______ and _____.
  2. 2. Its 1 of 3 strategies that assist our problem solving.
  3. 4. The method that guarantees you will find it eventually.
  4. 8. A sudden comprehension that solves a problem, reinterprets a situation, explains a joke, or resolves an ambiguous precept is called an insight.
  5. 10. occurs when a solution to a problem presents itself quickly and without warning. It is the sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based on trial and error.