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Title: You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't ...
Post by: tichca on Oct 8, 2020

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 problem is demonstrated by your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker?

◦ mental set
◦ insight insufficiency
◦ functional fixedness
◦ heuristic reasoning

Title: You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't ...
Post by: FergA on Oct 8, 2020

functional fixedness

Title: Re: You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you ca
Post by: Tony Le on Oct 31, 2023

thank you