Your Car Is Not Operating Correctly

question 384

Multiple Choice

Your car is not operating correctly. The mechanic opens the hood and says "We've been seeing lots of cars recently with fouled plugs or dirty fuel filters. Let's start there and see if that's your problem, too." The mechanic is using a(n) ________.

• A) compensatory decision model
• B) heuristic
• C) algorithm
• D) noncompensatory decision model

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Definitions:

Gratification

The feeling of pleasure or satisfaction that comes from fulfilling a desire or need.

Psychosexual Development

A central element of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, which proposes that children pass through a series of stages centered on erogenous zones.

Latency Stage

A psychoanalytic term for a period in child development from about age five to puberty during which sexual urges are inactive.

Biological Drives

Innate impulses in living organisms that prompt certain behaviors essential for survival, such as hunger, thirst, and reproduction.