Functional fixedness is

a. the tendency to rely on strategies that have been successful in the past.
b. a type of means-end heuristic.
c. the inability to see how familiar objects can be used in new ways.
d. a form of backward-thinking heuristic.
e. a type of multiple intelligence.


c

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