Throughout his elementary and high school years, Charlie got away with copying his test answers from classmates. Because the college's test proctors are very observant, Charlie spends as many hours devising new ways to cheat as it would take him to study and perform well in an honest fashion. Charlie's strategy for passing tests illustrates the consequences of:
a. functional fixedness.
b. a mental set.
c. confirmation bias.
d. the availability heuristic.
e. the framing effect.
Ans: b. a mental set.
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