Multiple Choice
You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell.You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker.Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates ____ on your part.
A) functional fixedness
B) mental set
C) insight insufficiency
D) heuristic reasoning
Correct Answer:
Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q85: The representativeness heuristic refers to our tendency
Q287: When people rely on the recognition heuristic,they
Q288: During the first half of the 20th
Q290: You can't think of a single instance
Q291: The tendency to keep using the same
Q293: Critics of the research with Washoe and
Q294: Confirmation bias refers to our tendency to
Q295: Brett is trying to decide which graduate
Q296: Joan was placed in charge of planning
Q297: Phonemes are the smallest units of _