Going to Class Involves Walking to the Classroom Building, Finding

question 128

Multiple Choice

Going to class involves walking to the classroom building, finding the correct room, and finding a seat. Finding a seat involves looking around the classroom, seeing which chairs are empty, selecting an empty one that is in the desired part of the room. . . . This problem-solving technique exemplifies __________.

• A) restructuring
• B) a set of nodes
• C) a parallel-distributed processing network
• D) hierarchical organization

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