Informal, Intuitive, and Often Speculative Shortcuts in Thinking That May

question 2

Multiple Choice

Informal, intuitive, and often speculative shortcuts in thinking that may solve a problem but are not guaranteed to do so.

• A) functional fixedness
• B) a hasty generalization
• C) mental set
• D) heuristics

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