A chess-playing computer program that routinely calculates all possible outcomes of all possible game moves best illustrates problem solving by means of:

a. the availability heuristic.
b. belief perseverance.
c. an algorithm.
d. the representativeness heuristic.
e. functional fixedness.


Answer: c. an algorithm.

Psychology

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