In Order to Find New Ways to Open a Can,a

question 64

Multiple Choice

In order to find new ways to open a can,a group leader asks his team of inventors to think of "opening" in general rather than asking them to come up with a better way to open a can.In
Doing so,this group leader will

• A) encourage creativity since he broadly defined the problem.
• B) discourage creativity because he defined the problem too broadly.
• C) encourage the use of mental sets, thus, encouraging creativity.
• D) prevent incubation of the problem, thus, discouraging creativity.

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