Phase Two Part Five Question Three

Problem-solving is the active effort people make to achieve a goal that cannot be easily attained, while functional fixedness is the tendency to think only of an object’s most common use in the effort to problem solve. As an example, if someone is in their car and is very thirsty and has a bottle of cola but not a bottle opener, problem solving would be to use that person's car keys, while functional fixedness is when the person doesn’t think of using the car key to open the bottles because it is meant to open a car.