Which of the following would be an example of functional fixedness?
a. wanting to use a rope to tie your car trunk closed and failing to realize that you could use a coat-hanger for the task
b. thinking that you must solve an algebra problem the same way you solved the previous problem in the book
c. beginning at the end of an analogy problem and working backwards toward the initial state
d. failing to concentrate on the surface structure of a problem
Ans: a
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