Using Gick and Holyoak's (1980) story involving a general and his army as a way to help solve the problem of a surgeon and his patient with an inoperable tumor is an example of ______.

A. analogical transfer
B. functional fixedness
C. a mental set
D. selective encoding


Answer: A

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