Making Several Minor Household Repairs,Alyssa Uses a Shoe as a Hammer

question 185

Multiple Choice

Making several minor household repairs,Alyssa uses a shoe as a hammer and a butter knife as a screwdriver.Which of the following statements best characterizes Alyssa's problem solving?

• A) She is constrained by a powerful mental set.
• B) She has been released from functional fixedness.
• C) She is taking advantage of the representative heuristic.
• D) She is forming subgoals.

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Definitions:

Existential Generalization

A form of inference where from a specific case one concludes the existence of an instance satisfying a particular condition.

Existential Instantiation

A logical principle stating that if something is said to exist, then a specific instance of that thing must also exist.

Universal Generalization

A logical operation that infers a general statement from specific cases, asserting that a property or relation holds for all members of a certain category.

Universal Instantiation

A logical rule that infers from the truth of a universally quantified statement about all members of a domain, the truth of that statement about any specific member.