You have a term paper due in a month. For the first week, you decide to find 10 references, read them in the second week, develop an outline in the third week, and write the paper during the fourth week. What problem-solving approach are you using?
a) setting subgoals
b) algorithms and heuristics
c) overcoming rigidity and set
d) using the availability heuristic
A
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A psychologist who is studying how people learn to solve a puzzle is likely a
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