Zelma Is Asked to Think of All the Words She

question 26

Multiple Choice

Zelma is asked to think of all the words she can, beginning with the letters "squ," as in "squeak." Later she is given a fill-in-the-blank task on which one of the items is "s _ _ o n g." Zelma keeps trying to make "squong" a word, and has trouble thinking of the common word "strong." Zelma's ability to solve this problem has been hampered by:

• A)a mental set.
• B)confirmation bias.
• C)functional fixedness.
• D)an algorithm.

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Definitions:

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Male-male Sexual Contact

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