The Movement to Release Mentally Ill Patients from Hospitals Is

question 12

Multiple Choice

The movement to release mentally ill patients from hospitals is called:

• A) civil decommitment.
• B) dehospitalization.
• C) deinstitutionalization.
• D) criminal negligence.

Understand the distinction between algorithms and heuristics and their application in problem-solving.

Recognize the impact of cognitive biases such as the availability heuristic, confirmation bias, and overconfidence on decision making and problem-solving.

Identify different problem-solving strategies, including means-ends analysis and subgoal analysis.

Appreciate the role of schemas, mental sets, and functional fixedness in influencing problem-solving and creativity.

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Definitions:

Formal Operational Thought

A stage in cognitive development, according to Piaget, where individuals develop the ability to think abstractly, logically, and systematically, usually beginning in adolescence.

Concrete Operational Thought

A stage in cognitive development, described by Piaget, where children aged 7-12 start to think logically about concrete events.

Sensorimotor Thought

refers to the stage in early childhood cognitive development where learning occurs through sensory experiences and manipulating objects.

Preoperational Thought

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children from about 2 to 7 years old demonstrate symbolic thinking but not yet using cognitive operations like logic.