COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Overconfidence; tendency to be more confident than correct
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Functional Fixedness; thinking of things in multiple ways
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Functional Fixedness; thinking of things only in their usual functions
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Intuition; knowing or sensing something without the use of reason
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Detailed explanation-1: -Functional fixedness is a type of cognitive bias that involves a tendency to see objects as only working in a particular way.
Detailed explanation-2: -Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that negatively affects a person’s ability to problem-solve and innovate. The bias causes a person to look at a problem in only one specific way and it can prevent them from developing effective solutions to their challenge.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blockbusting is the conscious strategy to identify and overcome this functional fixedness. Key blocks are perceptional, emotional, cultural, and intellectual blocks. A typical perceptional block is stereotyping, where one can only look at something in a preconceived way.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is functional fixedness? Functional fixedness is what’s called a cognitive bias. This means that your brain is used to thinking of a particular thing in a specific way, which limits your ability to think of it in a new or innovative way.
Detailed explanation-5: -*Functional Fixedness-the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.