The television character MacGyver was famous for using everyday objects to get out of trouble. In one episode, for example, MacGyver used the aluminum foil wrapper from a stick of gum to replace a blown electrical fuse

The MacGyver character clearly did NOT suffer from what cognitive obstacle to problem solving?
A) the anchoring effect
B) confirmation bias
C) functional fixedness
D) the representative heuristic


Answer: C
Rationale: Functional fixedness occurs when an individual identifies a potential operator, but can think of only its most obvious function. This clearly is not a problem for MacGyver.

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