You Are Asked to Come Up with New Ways to Clean

Multiple Choice

You are asked to come up with new ways to clean oil off a beach, so you look in the dictionary at randomly selected words, such as weed, rust, poor, magnify, foam, coal, etc., and try to relate them to the problem and see what thoughts they trigger.You are

A) seeking varied input to solve your problem.
B) narrowing the parameters of your problem.
C) distracting your focus, and this should be avoided.
D) creating mental sets that will enhance your creativity.