Heather and Tom Want to Bake Some Blueberry Muffins, but They

question 8

Multiple Choice

Heather and Tom want to bake some blueberry muffins, but they do not have a muffin tin. So Heather takes some soda cans out of the recycling bin, Tom cuts the top 2 inches off of each can, and they use the bottoms of the cans to bake their muffins. Tom and Heather have demonstrated

• A) a fixed mindset.
• B) use of an algorithm.
• C) overcoming functional fixedness.
• D) the means-end analysis heuristic.

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