Which training technique assigns a new employee with an experienced employee who is told to "show the kid the ropes?"

Dr. Wilkins randomly assigns subjects to one of three groups

He is interested in the effects of caffeine on anxiety levels. He gives subjects in the first group an extra two cups of coffee a day for six months. The second group receives an extra two cups of decaffeinated coffee a day for the same time period, while the control group is not given either regular or decaffeinated coffee. By providing one group with decaffeinated coffee, Dr. Wilkins is trying to account for which potential element of the experiment? A) A control condition B) The Rosenthal effect C) The placebo effect D) The artificial condition

In taking a multiple choice test, you first read the question and try to develop an answer. Then you check to see if your answer is one of the choices. If it's not, you try to eliminate any obviously wrong alternatives,

and finally try to find the best answer from among those that remain. This problem solving strategy is an example of ______. a. a heuristic c. top-down processing b. an algorithm d. functional fixedness