"A toothpick is a toothpick. It can't be used for anything except to pick your teeth." This person is experiencing:
A. interference
B. convergent thinking
C. functional fixedness
D. an availability heuristic
Answer: C
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a. generativity; stagnation c. intimacy; isolation b. ego integrity; despair d. industriousness; inferiority
Which statement concerning the intellectual abilities of individuals with ASDs is most accurate?
a. The vast majority of individuals with ASDs are mildly to severely intellectually disabled. b. Individuals with ASDs tend to score lower higher on nonverbal than verbal measures of intelligence. c. Half or more of children with ASDs have intellectual disabilities. d. The description of some individuals with autism as "savants" is a myth.
Recent research has found that 5-year-old children with imaginary friends, as opposed to children without,
a. have more real friends. c. tell more detailed stories. b. have fewer real friends. d. tell less detailed stories.
Conservation is to concrete operations as _____ is to preoperational thinking
a) naïve idealism b) reversibility c) egocentrism d) the personal fable