Permissive parenting style: In psychology, the term permissive parenting style in one of the parenting styles that was given by Baumrind.
According to Baumrind, the permissive parenting style is distinguished as parents keeping high responsiveness and low demands. These parents are considered loving and provide a few guidelines or rules to the child as well as they do not anticipate a mature behavior from the child and always being friendly with the child.
In the question above, the given statement signifies the permissive parenting style.
Heuristics are mental shortcuts used by people when finding solutions to problems and when making efficient and hasty decisions and judgments. They shorten the time used in making decision and allows people to make judgments without thinking of their next line of action. Mr. Lee is therefore using heuristics by teaching the students how to use shortcuts (dissecting similar research papers) to achieve writing their own research paper.
