Imagine That You Are Writing a Paper and Are Entering

question 32

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are writing a paper and are entering all of your references into your bibliography manually. You complete that paper and begin a new one. You start to, again, enter all of your references manually, even though your friend just told you about a great program that does all of that for you and allows you to reformat things within seconds. However, you insist on continuing with your old ways. This illustrates _____.

• A) Functional fixedness
• B) Selective encoding
• C) Analogical transfer
• D) A mental set