Question

Because he is a hopeless romantic, Chad buys his wife a single red rose for no particular reason while grocery shopping. Realizing that he doesn't own a vase, he also buys the only one the supermarket has in stock, which is rather expensive. Upon coming home, his wife says, "Thanks for the rose, but is the vase really necessary? We can just put it in one of your many empty wine bottles that litter the kitchen." Chad's failure to realize that a wine bottle can serve as a makeshift, yet romantic, vase is an example of

A) The recency effect
B) Functional fixedness
C) Semantic interference
D) The availability bias

Answer 1

B) Functional fixedness

Step-by-step explanation:

Functional fixedness: In psychology, the term "functional fixedness" is described as one of the different cognitive biases in which an individual's capability is being limited to utilize a specific object and therefore he or she uses that particular object in a way that it has always been used or traditionally used. It has been started with the concept of Gestalt psychology.

In the question above, the given statement is an example of functional fixedness.