In working a logic problem, you often need to make certain provisional assumptions, but sometimes they turn out to be wrong and need to be “unmade.” The process of keeping track of assumptions so that you can back up to point of choice is called ______.
a. working backward
b. backtracking
c. introspection
d. reasoning by analogy
b. backtracking
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Cheng was like a "big fish in a little pond" in elementary school. She got good grades, was popular, and caught the attention of teachers when she started her own blog on how to improve the environment when she was in the fifth grade. When Cheng graduated from sixth grade and then went to a middle school that was five times bigger, two miles farther from her home, and filled with kids she had never seen before, her achievement level could be expected to __________.
A. decrease B. increase slightly C. increase dramatically D. remain the same
A design in which measures are taken at baseline and after the introduction of the independent variable at different times across multiple situations is a _____ design
a. multiple-baseline across subjects b. multiple-baseline across time c. multiple-baseline across situations d. multiple-baseline across behaviors
Cystic fibrosis is caused by:
a. incomplete mitosis. b. an abnormality in the 21st pair of chromosomes. c. a recessive gene. d. a dominant gene.
A child who can tell you what study methods work best for different subjects or what subjects are hardest for her to learn would be displaying which of the following skills?
A) Automaticity B) Expertise C) Deductive logic D) Metacognition