The tendency to see a shoe as an object to be worn on the foot, with no other possible uses, is called
a. Einstellung
b. functional fixedness
c. undirected thinking
d. verification
Ans: b
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a. animism. b. organization. c. identity training. d. avoiding the A-not-B error.
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