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Question 91

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Brandon works for a courier service. In creating his route each day he starts by selecting the address closest to the dispatch office. Once he makes that delivery he checks the remaining addresses and picks the one closest to his current location. He follows this process for all his remaining deliveries for the day. Brandon's strategy for building his daily delivery route is closest to

A) working backward.
B) availability.
C) hill climbing.
D) trial-and-error.

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The process that involves evaluating alternatives and making choices among them is known as

A) insight.
B) problem solving.
C) decision making.
D) bounded rationality.

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Greeno referred to problems where individuals need to carry out a sequence of changes in order to reach a specific goal as an example of a problem of

A mental "rule of thumb" for problem solving is referred to as

The behavioral theorists emphasize the role of ____ in language acquisition.

The area of psychology that refers broadly to mental processes or thinking is

People often assume that it is necessary to use all the numerical information provided in a problem in order to solve the problem. In reality, numerical information sometimes makes it more difficult to solve a problem because the information

Which of the following statements is the BEST example of telegraphic speech?

Which of the following statements concerning the ability of animals to acquire language is false?

Rylee's algebra teacher is amazed at the creativity Rylee shows in solving homework problems. He seldom uses the same method on two consecutive problems, even when the problems are very similar in content and structure. Although Rylee makes lots of mistakes in algebra, he is unlikely to experience

At dinner three-year-old Bobby overhears his father tell the waitress that his tasty hamburger was delicious. The next day Bobby tells his mother that the grilled-cheese sandwich she made him for lunch was delicious. Apparently, Bobby learned the word delicious through the process of

The hypothesis that one's language determines the nature of one's thought is the

If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that

Recent research on the relationship between language and thought has shown

Dr. Grath believes that both an innate predisposition and a supportive environment contribute to language development. Dr. Grath's views are most consistent with those of

In language development, babbling refers to producing

According to Pinker and Bloom (1992) , if the acquisition of language was a trait variation that produced just 1% more offspring, it would increase in prevalence from 0.1% to 99.9% in

Last Halloween, 4-year-old Jillian called the decorations at her house "punkins." This year she is able to say "pumpkins" when she describes them. In this instance, Jillian has made a gain in her use of

Which of the following statements is MOST accurate?

Which of the following statements is LEAST accurate?