Developing expertise in an area allows for fast, fairly effortless thinking based on experience with similar problems. This type of thinking is known as
a. automatic processing.
b. algorithmic problem-solving.
c. mnemonic strategies.
d. trial-and-error strategies.
ANSWER: a
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