Zelma Is Asked to Think of All the Words Beginning

question 124

Multiple Choice

Zelma is asked to think of all the words beginning with the letters "squ," such as squeak.She is then given a fill-in-the-blank task where one of the items is "s _ _ o n g." Zelma keeps trying to make "squong" a word,and she has trouble thinking of the common word "strong." Zelma's ability to solve this problem has been hampered by:

• A)syllogistic reasoning.
• B)mental set.
• C)the confirmation bias.
• D)the representativeness heuristic.

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