Al goes out one frqis car is covered with a layer of thick frost. He needs to get to work and looks for his ice scraper. Unable to find it, he thinks a moment, goes into the house, and returns with a hard plastic spatula from the kitchen. In using the spatula as a makeshift ice scraper, what has Al overcome

Functional fixedness

Explanation:Functional fixedness refers to a cognitive bias which makes us consider an object to work only in a particular way and not consider it for other potential use.

For example a paper clip is used to hold papers but I'd you open up to what else it can do ,you may find yourself using it to open up a locked door in case you lost your keys

Functional fixedness prevent us from thinking creatively and seeing object in a full range of uses.

Al is able to overcome this because he didn't see a spatula as an object used only for one function but he creatively figure out it can also scrap the ice.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.

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