A Person Is Unable to Invent a Specific New Use

question 69

Multiple Choice

A person is unable to invent a specific new use for something because the person is so used to seeing a conventional use for that thing.

• A) mental set
• B) availability heuristic
• C) functional fixedness
• D) representative heuristic

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Maximum Time

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