If You Need Something to Stir Your Soup and You Overlook the Possibility of Using a Paintbrush, What Tendency Have You Demonstrated

question 181

Multiple Choice

If you need something to stir your soup and you overlook the possibility of using a paintbrush, what tendency have you demonstrated?

• A)Overlooking base-rate information
• B)​Maximizing strategy
• C)Framing effect​
• D)​Functional fixedness

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Definitions:

Analogue Experiments

Research methods where conditions are artificially created to resemble real-life situations in order to study behaviors or outcomes.

Natural Experiments

Studies where the researcher takes advantage of a natural event to study its effects on subjects, without any manipulation by the researcher.

Abnormal Behaviors

Actions that deviate from the norm or societal expectations, often indicative of psychological issues or mental health disorders.

Stress

A physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes tension and may trigger bodily or psychological responses.