Claudia Wants to Send a Fragile Vase to Her Parents

question 222

Multiple Choice

Claudia wants to send a fragile vase to her parents for their anniversary, but she can't find any appropriate packing material in her house. She decides to pop some popcorn and use that to pack around the vase. In this case, Claudia has ​

• A)demonstrated functional fixedness in solving her problem. ​
• B)effectively utilized the availability heuristic in solving her problem.
• C)overcome functional fixedness in solving her problem.
• D)utilized an elimination-by-aspects strategy to solve her problem.

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Definitions:

Acceptance

The act of consenting to receive or undertake something offered, or recognizing a process or condition without attempting to change it.

Social Development

The process by which individuals learn and adapt to the values, norms, and expectations of their society to become functional members.

Harlow

Harry Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship in social and cognitive development.

Cognitive Development

The study of how thinking, problem-solving, and intelligence change as people age.