| Functional fixedness, or thinking about objects only in terms of their functions, is another kind of mental set that prevents problem solving. |
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| One can't help but respect this fortepianist, though, for his courage and for the fixedness of his vision. |
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| One feels that each, in different ways, has confronted the fixedness of a poetic identity and managed to break it open, to begin again. |
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| Yet, it is precisely because of its fixedness in the landscape that, to those who see the monument, it becomes invisibly part of the landscape. |
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| Perceptions that there are implicit guarantees about the fixedness of exchange rates and bailouts compound this process. |
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| This gives the hobby of raising homing pigeons a curious permanence, a fixedness in space. |
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| Some of the more common obstacles, or blocks, are mental set, functional fixedness, stereotypes, and negative transfer. |
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| Functional fixedness is the inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions. |
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| When one is faced with a new problem, functional fixedness blocks one's ability to use old tools in novel ways. |
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| Although idiomaticity has been thoroughly explored, it is usually the fixedness aspect that has been emphasised. |
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| It misses only a little of fixedness, color and weight. |
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| Overcoming functional fixedness first allowed people to use reshaped coat hangers to get into locked cars, and it is what first allowed thieves to pick simple spring door locks with credit cards. |
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