GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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continued use of problem solving strategies that have worked in the past
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arriving at a particularly insightful solution to a problem
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focusing on information that is irrelevant to the solution of the problem
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not seeing a new function for a familiar object
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Detailed explanation-1: -When a problem solver can only conceive of using an object in its most common function, then the problem cannot be solved. Duncker (1945) used the term functional fixedness to refer to a situation in which a problem solver cannot think of using an object in a new function that is required to solve the problem.
Detailed explanation-2: -Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person’s ability to use an object in more ways than it is traditionally used and affects an individual’s ability to innovate and be creative when solving challenges.
Detailed explanation-3: -Functional fixedness is a type of cognitive bias that involves a tendency to see objects as only working in a particular way. 1 For example, you might view a thumbtack as something that can only be used to hold paper to a corkboard.
Detailed explanation-4: -• Functional fixedness: refers to our tendency to think of only the familiar functions for objects, without imagining alternative uses. The representativeness heuristic. heuristic leads us to judge the likelihood of things in terms of how they represent our prototype for a group of items.
Detailed explanation-5: -Specifically, the inability to see or find new uses for old objects is known as functional fixedness (a).