Heather and Tom want to bake some blueberry muffins, but they do not have a muffin tin. So Heather takes some soda cans out of the recycling bin, Tom cuts the top 2 inches off of each can, and they use the bottoms of the cans to bake their muffins. Tom and Heather have demonstrated
Answer: Overcoming functional fixedness
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a. relational b. psychosocial c. retaliatory d. inductive
At Gwen's 20th high school reunion, she visited with some people who made many wrong choices throughout their lives, resulting in negative and harmful behaviors. Carl Rogers would say that these people's ____ was dysfunctional.
A. self-actualizing tendency B. locus of control C. ego D. defense mechanism
Which factor is an anticipated event that may, in part, determine personality?
A) a person's fears B) aspects of a person's subconscious C) a person's brain functioning D) a person's genetic makeup
Twin studies and adoption studies are methods to discover the role of __________ factors in the development of psychological disorders
a. cognitive c. psychodynamic b. behavioral d. biological