You have a pair of pliers and a bag of nuts in the shell. You are lamenting the fact that you can't shell the nuts because you do not have a nutcracker. Your inability to perceive the pliers as a makeshift nutcracker demonstrates ____ on your part
a. functional fixedness
b. mental set
c. insight insufficiency
d. heuristic reasoning
A
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What will be an ideal response?
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