If you were playing a game of chess, you might try to analyze all of the possible moves and then pick the best one, but once you realize that there are just too many, you will probably use a strategy such as "protect the king." Such "rules of thumb"
are known as
a. algorithms.
b. mental blocks.
c. analogies.
d. heuristics.
Answer: d. heuristics.
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a. accuracy. b. validity. c. reliability. d. generalizability.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. medical doctors describing teens b. psychologists describing parenting of adolescents. c. Italian philosophy d. German literature