Jan asks her friend Whitney to run to her new apartment near campus and get her report that she left on the table by the door so she will not miss the test. She hands Whitney her key ring that has eight keys on it. Whitney runs to the apartment and then realizes that she does not know which key will open the door; so she just starts trying one key and then another, hoping by chance to find the

right one. Finally, the fifth key she tries opens the door. To solve the "key" problem, Whitney was using

a. insight.
b. pragmatics.
c. a general solution.
d. a random search strategy.

D

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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a. conditioned stimulus. c. conditioned response. b. unconditioned response. d. unconditioned stimulus.

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