An individual uses a paper clip to unlock the door to her house because she has misplaced her key. this individual's approach to solving the problem avoids.
a. syllogistic reasoning
b. inductive reasoning
c. deductive reasoning
d. functional fixedness
e. means-end analysis

Functional fixedness

Explanation:Functional fixedness is our cognitive bias of being fixated only in a traditional use of an object without considering other potential use of it. For example a paper clip is only considered for it sole use as a device which is used to hold sheets of paper together, but a person who avoids function fixedness is able to also use the same paper clip in other functions such as opening a locked door.

Functional fixedness hinder us from seeing various potential functional use of an object and from thing and coming up with out of the box ideas that can fix certain issues.

How Functional Fixedness Influences Problem-Solving

If you wanted to hang a picture in a wall but you didn't have a hammer you will not consider other tools that you can use for the same task. Someone without functional fixedness may suggest using a metal wrench to put the nail into the wall and it may suprise you.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

a. the scene is structured as a dialogue between two characters in their own informal language.