Leini is working on building a bookshelf in her backyard when she gets a terrible itch on her back. She gripes about not being a
ble to reach it, and goes inside to look for a back-scratcher or a kitchen spoon. She could have just used the hammer she was holding in her hand, but she didn’t think of that. This is an example of________
Functional fixedness is a psychological concept when a person's ability to use a particular object to perform a task is restricted when that object is traditionally used for a specific kind of work.
For example a kitchen knife is used to cut vegetables and fruits in the kitchen. So a person with functional fixedness, will not use that knife for other purposes other than cutting vegetables in the kitchen.
It limits the use of a tool or object for a different purpose other than using it traditionally.
It originated in Gestalt psychology.
Thus the answer to the question is functional fixedness
An archenemy is someone who is hostile towards someone or something else. In this case, the US and Soviet Union were archenemies because they were both very powerful and both of them wanted to be better than the other.
The statement above which is being termed by Thomas Gilovich
is known to be the spotlight effect. The spotlight effect makes a person have a
belief that people around them notices them more than of what they actually
know and what they are really are. It could be described in the statement above
as it focus on how other people notice a person with their appearance and
performance.
