Seventeen-year-old Ashley is driving her brother's car when she has her first-ever flat tire. She realizes that she needs to find where the spare tire, the jack, and other tools are stored in the car, remove the flat tire, and install the spare tire. Ashley is approaching the problem by
a. forming subgoals.
b. changing the representation of the problem.
c. working backward.
d. searching for analogies.
A
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Economist Roland Fryer Jr. attempted to determine whether _____ could be used to raise students' standardized test scores
a. monetary rewards b. new school facilities c. more highly trained teachers d. cognitive-enhancing medications
Ivy watches a customer with at least 50 items line up at her express checkout line. Ivy shakes her head in disbelief and decides the customer must be "clueless" to miss the sign that indicates this is an express line. Ivy's attribution for the cause of the customer's behavior is consistent with:
a. a self-serving bias b. a self-fulfilling prophecy c. information integration theory d. the fundamental attribution error
Talia is looking for her cat by methodically searching each room, and then closing the door to that room after she leaves. She is using what type of problem solving strategy?
a) a heuristic b) an attribution c) an algorithm d) a hunch
The dependent variable is the one that is
a. manipulated. b. prevented from affecting the outcome of the experiment. c. revealed by measures of performance. d. the suspected cause in the experiment.