Question

Hakeem spent three hours trying to solve a physics problem to no avail. Finally, in frustration, he gave up and went to watch TV. To his surprise, while watching TV, Hakeem found that he suddenly knew how to solve the problem. Hakeem seems to have benefited from ____.​

a. ​a mental set
b. ​functional fixedness
c. ​incubation
d. ​an algorithm

Answer 1

Incubation

Step-by-step explanation:

Incubation is the stage of creativity. There are four stages in creativity such as preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. Incubation is the second stage of creativity.

Incubation is the process in which unconscious thought are recombined that are stimulated by the conscious work in a point of time. The incubation is related to the insight process or the intuition.

This is the unconscious part of the process in which intuition or insight is become validated as an unconscious insight.

Hakeem was using or at the incubation stage of creativity that is benefited him.