Lolita Uses Her Kitchen Knife to Cut Vegetables

question 132

Multiple Choice

Lolita uses her kitchen knife to cut vegetables.She always uses her knife for either slicing bread or for chopping meat.Despite these uses,Lolita also occasionally uses the knife to unscrew nails from her kitchen equipment.This alternate way of using the knife shows that Lolita has overcome

• A)functional fixedness.
• B)conservation.
• C)the Flynn effect.
• D)the sunk cost fallacy.

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