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. Which of the following problems is demonstrated by your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker?
A) mental set
B) insight insufficiency
C) functional fixedness
D) heuristic reasoning
Correct Answer:
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