In Taking a Multiple-Choice Test, You First Read the Question

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Multiple Choice

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) top-down processing
• B) an algorithm
• C) functional fixedness
• D) a heuristic

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Definitions:

Behavioral Interventions

Techniques and strategies used to modify maladaptive behaviors or reinforce desirable behaviors, often employed in psychological therapy.

Guided Mastery Techniques

Interventions designed to increase health-promoting behaviors by providing explicit information about how to engage in these behaviors, as well as opportunities to engage in the behaviors in increasingly challenging situations.

Focus Groups

A qualitative research method involving small, diverse groups of people discussing a topic of interest, moderated by a researcher.

Online Interventions

Psychological or health services and treatments that are delivered over the internet to improve mental and physical health.