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Cognitive psychology

difficulty seeing an object's use beyond its familiar function, which blocks solving problems that need a new use.

In cognitive psychology, functional fixedness refers to difficulty seeing an object's use beyond its familiar function, which blocks solving problems that need a new use. This meaning comes from Duncker (1945) in Psychological Monographs.[1]

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References

Duncker, K. (1945). On problem-solving. Psychological Monographs, 58(5), i-113. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0093599

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