Seventeen-year-old Ashley is driving her brother's car when she has her first-ever flat tire. She realizes that she needs to find where the spare tire, the jack, and other tools are stored in the car, remove the flat tire, and install the spare tire. Ashley is approaching the problem by:

Forming subgoals

Explanation:

When dealing with a complex task with many elements it is always easier to seperate each activity in order to acheive the final goal. The spliting of the activities is called the formation of subgoals. A subgoal is a goal that with completion, completes a part of the final goal.

It makes it easier as the final goal can be seen as the summation of the subgoals. The completion of a subgoal also motivates a person as they are a step closer to the final goal.

Hence, Ashley splits her goal of installing a spare tire into individual elements called subgoals.