You Have a Pair of Pliers and a Bag of Nuts

question 61

Multiple Choice

You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You believe you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates _____ on your part.

• A)functional fixedness
• B)mental set
• C)insight insufficiency
• D)heuristic reasoning

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