Which of the following examples best illustrates functional fixedness? a. adam needs to keep the door open, so he uses his psychology book as a door stop. b. trey wants to nail a poster up in his room, so he uses his shoe as a hammer. c. julie lost her earring back, so she throws the earring away instead of using a pencil eraser. d. morgan uses a wrench as a paper weight while she writes her essay for psychology outdoors.

C. Fixedness is an inability to use an object for anything other than its original purpose. Rather than get creative in fixing her earring, Julie throws it away. Using a pencil eraser as an earring back would represent ingenuity and flexibility - the opposite of functional fixedness.

Prior to the creation of the us constitution, the general view of representative government is that it only worked in very small-scale environments- essentially a city-state or smaller. otherwise, the actual reflection of popular will declined in the representatives (ie, the difference between 1 representative per 100 citizens and 1 representative per 10,000 citizens), and generally the whole process became inefficient and self-destructive.james madison, however, was like 'no beezy'. he remarked that small republics were prone to faction and thus collapsed quickly. a large republic, he said, had so many interests and factions that none could rule, and thus they had to moderate and compromise.

Information on the cost of things, quantitative data has to do with numbers, qualitative data uses details such as taste, appearance, what it looks like etc.