John finishes eating a jar of pickles and throws the medium-sized glass pickle jar away. The...

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John finishes eating a jar of pickles and throws the medium-sized glass pickle jar away. The next day he goes to Home Depot and buys a medium-sized glass jar that he can use to store his coin collection. John was unable to creatively envision the empty glass pickle jar as a container for his coins, reflecting which cognitive bias? O Availability Bias Gambler's Fallacy O Confirmation Bias O Functional Fixedness Emily has thought Pitbulls are dangerous dogs her whole life. When she heard that her neighbor's Pitbull got into a fight with another neighbor's Golden Retriever, she thinks that this confirms her belief that Pitbulls are dangerous, disregarding the fact that the Golden Retriever is the one who started the fight. This is an example of O Availability bias O Discrimination Prejudice reduction Confirmation bias You buy 30 scratch tickets from the local convenience store, and you do not win money on any of them. You decide to go back to the store one more time to buy 10 more scratch tickets, thinking it's about time you would get a big win. You are demonstrating which cognitive bias? Availability bias O Functional fixedness O Confirmation bias Gambler's fallacy John finishes eating a jar of pickles and throws the medium-sized glass pickle jar away. The next day he goes to Home Depot and buys a medium-sized glass jar that he can use to store his coin collection. John was unable to creatively envision the empty glass pickle jar as a container for his coins, reflecting which cognitive bias? O Availability Bias Gambler's Fallacy O Confirmation Bias O Functional Fixedness Emily has thought Pitbulls are dangerous dogs her whole life. When she heard that her neighbor's Pitbull got into a fight with another neighbor's Golden Retriever, she thinks that this confirms her belief that Pitbulls are dangerous, disregarding the fact that the Golden Retriever is the one who started the fight. This is an example of O Availability bias O Discrimination Prejudice reduction Confirmation bias You buy 30 scratch tickets from the local convenience store, and you do not win money on any of them. You decide to go back to the store one more time to buy 10 more scratch tickets, thinking it's about time you would get a big win. You are demonstrating which cognitive bias? Availability bias O Functional fixedness O Confirmation bias Gambler's fallacy

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1 The correct answer is Functional fixedness Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that drives people to use objects in traditional or standard way... View the full answer