| Functional fixedness, or thinking about objects only in terms of their functions, is another kind of mental set that prevents problem solving. |
| Functional fixedness is the inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions. |
| 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. |
| One can't help but respect this fortepianist, though, for his courage and for the fixedness of his vision. |
| Some of the more common obstacles, or blocks, are mental set, functional fixedness, stereotypes, and negative transfer. |
| One feels that each, in different ways, has confronted the fixedness of a poetic identity and managed to break it open, to begin again. |
