The cognitive bias that prevents people from seeing an object as having a function other than its conventional or customary use is:
AFunctional Fixedness
BMental Set
CAnchoring Effect
DFraming Effect
Explanation
Functional Fixedness (demonstrated by Karl Duncker’s Candle Problem) impairs creative problem-solving.
Exam Relevance
- Topic: Cognitive Psychology
- Subtopic: Problem Solving
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