Al goes out one frosty morning to find that his car is covered with a layer of thick frost. He needs to get to work and looks for his ice scraper. Unable to find it, he thinks a moment, goes into the house, and returns with a hard plastic spatula from the kitchen. In using the spatula as a makeshift ice scraper, Al has overcome ___.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: functional fixedness
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__________ involves severe and widespread changes in brain function that lead to progressive declines in various mental skills, including memory function.
A. Retrograde amnesia B. Alcohol amnesic syndrome C. Retroactive interference D. Alzheimer's disease
Baumbusch's survey of life-long single women between the ages of 65 and 77 found
a. the only contented women were also lesbians. b. they were satisfied with their decision. c. many of them had cohabited for significant lengths of time. d. the majority were very lonely and sorry they had not had families.
William James suggested that consciousness should be examined depending on the purposes served by mental processes, as suggested by _____, rather than trying to break it down into specific elements, as suggested by _____.
A) functionalism; structuralism B) functionalism; natural selection C) structuralism; functionalism D) structuralism; empiricism
Umberto was in an automobile accident and suffered damage to the left side of his brain in the region called Wernicke's area. Umberto may suffer
a. hemispatial neglect. b. an inability to produce vocalizations. c. expressive aphasia. d. an inability to understand the speech of others.