You have to host a dinner party for 30 people on Saturday. Your apartment is in a mess and your clothes need to be washed. You decide to do your laundry on Thursday, buy the groceries on Friday, clean the apartment on Saturday in the morning, and prepare the dinner on Saturday evening. Solving the problem of hosting the dinner party in this way is an example of

A. using algorithms.
B. prototyping.
C. using heuristics.
D. subgoaling.


Answer: D

Psychology

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