Matching—Problem-Solving Techniques

Activity 7.5

 

Match the terms with their corresponding definitions.

Using the pulldown boxes, match each item on the left to the corresponding item at right.
Trial and Error
Metacognitive Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Algorithm
Neural Networks
Analogy
Functional Fixedness
Problem Solving
a.   A strategy for solving problems based on applying solutions that were previously successful with other problems similar in underlying structure.
b.   A branch of science that studies the capacity of computers to demonstrate performance that, if it were produced by human beings, would be described as showing intelligence.
c.   A rule that guarantees solution to a specific type of problem.
d.   An expanded level of awareness which allows a person, in a sense, to observe themselves in the problem-solving process.
e.   Efforts to develop or choose among various responses in order to attain desired goals.
f.   A method of solving problems in which possible solutions are tried until one succeeds.
g.   Computer systems modeled after the brain and made up of highly interconnected elementary computational units that work together in parallel.
h.   The tendency to think of using objects only as they have been used in the past.

   

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