Question

You have just received a package from home but don't have a knife handy, so you don't know how to open it. Your roommate quickly offers you her house key to use to cut open the box. You have demonstrated fixedness, whereas your roommate has not.

Answer 1

You have demonstrated funtional fixedness.

Step-by-step explanation:

Fnctional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to only using an object in the way it is traditionally used (for example, only using a key to open locks). This concept originated in Gestalt psychology, a movement that emphasizes holistic processing.