Suppose your friend Ellen has lost the back to her earring. She ...

[Yolanda]

Suppose your friend Ellen has lost the back to her earring. She looks around her room, picks up a pencil, removes the eraser, and uses the eraser as a substitute for the missing part. According to the chapter on problem solving, Ellen
 
  a. has solved an ill-defined problem.
  b. is too heavily guided by mental set.
  c. has focused on the initial state.
  d. has overcome functional fixedness.

Question 2

One way that functional fixedness and mental set are similar to each other is that
 
  a. Both emphasize our reliance on bottom-up processing.
  b. Both show that we rely too heavily on a strategy that is typically useful.
  c. Both show that we tend to emphasize the positive, rather than the negative.
  d. Both emphasize our inability to use situated learning effectively.

[yuyiding]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b