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

ANS: C, Although time-consuming, Talia's strategy is systematic and guaranteed to yield the cat.

Psychology

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a. behaviorism. b. determinism. c. functionalism. d. introspection.

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Lynn, a three-year-old child, is counting her blocks aloud, "One, two, three, five, four, six. Six blocks!" Her mother asks her to try again, and Lynn counts aloud, "One, two, four, three, five, six

There are still six!" In this example, Lynn violates the ___ principle. a. one-one b. stable order c. cardinal d. order irrelevance

Psychology