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jekas [21]
3 years ago
14

Alicia leaves her office building only to find it is raining. She returns to her office and gets a trash bag out of the supply c

abinet. Using a pair of scissors, she cuts the bag so that she can put her head and arms through the bag without getting wet. In using the trash bag as a makeshift rain jacket, Alicia has overcome
functional fixedness.
Social Studies
1 answer:
dimaraw [331]3 years ago
3 0

The correct answer is functional fixedness.

Functional fixation is a type of cognitive bias that gives us the tendency, as human beings, to only use products and services as they are conventionally used.

It explains why we do not use the items more efficiently and / or cheaply, having been initially studied (and received this name) because of the research carried out by the psychological Karl Duncker.

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