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Divya often divides the assigned job into small tasks which she can handle easily. She is using

  • A.reductionism
  • B.secondary elaboration
  • C.subgoal analysis
  • D.functional fixedness

Answer: C

Divya is using subgoal analysis.

Subgoal analysis (means-ends analysis) is a problem-solving strategy in which a large problem is broken into smaller, manageable intermediate goals, each of which can be achieved in turn. Dividing an assigned job into small tasks she can handle is exactly this.

Functional fixedness is a barrier to problem solving, the inability to see a new use for a familiar object. Reductionism is explaining a complex phenomenon by its simplest parts, a philosophical position rather than a working strategy, and secondary elaboration is a term from Freud's account of dreams.

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