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A Person Is Unable to Invent a Specific New Use

Question 69

Question 69

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A person is unable to invent a specific new use for something because the person is so used to seeing a conventional use for that thing.


A) mental set
B) availability heuristic
C) functional fixedness
D) representative heuristic

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