Johnny is planning on visiting his grandmother for the weekend. The week before his planned trip he hears on the news that the m
ajor interstate that he uses to drive to his grandma's is going to be shut down over the weekend for construction. Rather than mapping out a new route, Johnny cancels his trip altogether. Johnny's inability to find an alternative route to his grandma's house illustrates what obstacle to problem-solving
Problem-solving has several meanings in different contexts. But basically, it implies using available and useful avenues to solve problems.
For one to solve to a problem, several barriers/obstacles could present themselves. They include; Confirmation bias, Functional fixedness, Mental set, Unnecessary constraints, and Irrelevant information.
In the question above, Johnny is faced with Unnecessary constraints. This barrier makes people fixated on only one line of reasoning which they might have been experiencing success with before. It hinders creativity and thinking outside the box. This is what prevents Johnny from mapping out a new route.
This is a kind of barrier to problem solving in which the person places a barrier to innovative thought of solving a problem.
Johnny has placed a boundary on the task at hand, hence, he founds it difficult to see any other solution to his problem apart from the one he has always employed.
Johnny's imposed constraint has stopped his innovative thought of finding an alternate route to his Grandmother's place without making use of the path he is used to taking.
Answer: Once the scene is deemed safe, what should Alex do to assess the people involved in the car accident? Some clues that the scene is not safe is because there was a bad crash. Alex should stay back and call 911. Once I feel that the scene is safe I would run over to see if the people are okay.
Yes? It depends on the person really. For example, how it affects the child's mindset. Some may cope differently, so I can't give you a definite answer.