Ray is suspicious and has the unrelenting delusion that agents of a foreign government are following him with the intention of killing him. If Ray were administered the MMPI-2, you expect that he would have a high score on the scale measuring

In problem solving, a method that always produces a problem solution (though not necessarily very efficiently) is known as

a. an algorithm. b. a heuristic. c. a matrix. d. the hill-climbing heuristic.

Suppose that you have always prepared a casserole in a certain fashion. Then you buy a food processor. It would be most efficient to prepare the ingredients in a new order, but you follow your old, familiar order. The strategy that you are using is

a. the hill-climbing heuristic. b. a mental set. c. parallel processing. d. divergent production.