Cacee knows she needs to stop procrastinating and start thinking about the research paper that is due in her Abnormal Psychology class in two weeks. Though it was assigned almost two months ago, she hasn't worked on it or thought about it at all. She decides that she'll first select a topic and then start collecting the published research on her topic. After that, she'll read the research and start to summarize it in the form of a paper. Once she gets that paper written, she'll revise it and make sure her APA referencing is correct. When she is done with all of those steps, she'll finally turn in the paper. _____ is the strategy that Cacee is using to get her paper done.
A)The analogy heuristic
B)The representativeness heuristic
C)Framing
D)Means-end analysis

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Cacee is using a heuristic strategy in which the current position is compared with the desired goal and a series of steps are formulated and taken to close the gap between them.

Cacee Knows She Needs to Stop Procrastinating and Start Thinking