You Have a Pair of Pliers and a Bag of Nuts

question 185

Multiple Choice

You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Which of the following problems is demonstrated by your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker?

• A)mental set
• B)insight insufficiency
• C)functional fixedness
• D)heuristic reasoning

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