In functional fixedness,
a. if an object has one particular function, we realize that the object can also be used in other capacities.
b. we realize that a problem can be solved most efficiently by the hill-climbing heuristic.
c. we rely too heavily on bottom-up processing.
d. we assign a particular use to an object, and that use tends to remain stable.
Ans: d
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