You have a pair of pilers 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. Your inability to perceive the pilers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates_______on your part.
Correct answer: A. functional fixedness
- A. functional fixedness
- B. inductive reasoning
- C. heuristic reasoning
- D. insight insufficiency
Explanation
Functional fixedness is the tendency to see an object only in its usual role, so the pliers are not recognised as a possible nutcracker. The problem is not a failure of reasoning rules but a restriction on how the tool is represented.
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