The Fact That We Fail to See a New or Novel

question 278

Multiple Choice

The fact that we fail to see a new or novel function of an object we have used previously is called

• A) positive test strategy.
• B) conformational bias.
• C) means-ends fixity.
• D) functional fixedness.

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