Suppose that Ramn is a Latino college student who is taking a course in engineering. He is about to take the first exam in this course. He looks around the room and notices that he appears to be the only Latino student in the class.
Ramn is likely to experience
a. functional fixedness.
b. bottom-up processing.
c. stereotype threat.
d. intrinsic motivation.
Question 2In functional fixedness,
a. if an object has one particular function, we realize that the object can also be used in other capacities.
b. we realize that a problem can be solved most efficiently by the hill-climbing heuristic.
c. we rely too heavily on bottom-up processing.
d. we assign a particular use to an object, and that use tends to remain stable.
Question 3Which 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
Question 4Evelyn notices that a screw on her bicycle is loose, and she doesn't have a screwdriver with her. So she searches through her pocket and finds a dime, which is the appropriate thickness to tighten the screw. Evelyn has demonstrated
a. overcoming a mental set.
b. overcoming functional fixedness.
c. overcoming a heuristic.
d. a fixed mindset.
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