10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIXEDNESS»
Discover the use of
fixedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fixedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Experimental Psychology
When Subjects Were Given the Boxes That Contained Material (The Functional-
Fixedness and Neutral-Use Conditions), a Smaller Number Were Able to Solve
the Problem than When the Boxes Were Given to Them Empty (Control).
Barry Kantowitz, Henry Roediger, III, David Elmes, 2008
If you have ever used a dime as a screwdriver, you've overcome functional
fixedness. How does functional fixedness aflect problem solving? Karl Duncker
once asked students to mount a candle on a vertical board so the candle could
burn ...
Dennis Coon, John Mitterer, 2013
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Writing Instruction for Verbally Talented Youth: The Johns ...
work habits, and sleep habits are bom from generations of experience, passed
on to the young, and adopted readily, without question. This repetition of patterns
in our behavior creates a "fixedness," since we constantly rely on them to work.
Ben Reynolds, Kendra Kopelke, William G. Durden, 1984
of “fixedness”: that's what comes “prior to existence,” according to the opinion we
are analyzing. The terminology under discussion thus becomes more complex
and, at the same time, begins to clarify. The term “fixedness” now differentiates ...
Редакционная коллегия, 2012
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Phraseology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
A. very. complex. criterion. of. fixedness: Non-compositionality. Maria. Helena.
Svensson. The terminology used in definitions of different types of fixed
expressions (such as idioms, locutions, proverbs etc.) is complex and sometimes
...
Sylviane Granger, Fanny Meunier, 2008
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The Creative Cognition Approach
Transfer of fixedness has also been investigated with a single object that is first
used in its usual function and then is the only or most suitable object available to
solve the problem. With this procedure, one can ask whether the first, ordinary ...
Steven M. Smith, Thomas B. Ward, Ronald A. Finke, 1995
Functional fixedness is like a mental set for the uses of objects. In a study by
Duncker (1945) participants were placed individually in a bare room except for a
table, a candle, a box of matches and a box of tin tacks. The problem they had to
...
Malcolm Hardy, Steve Heyes, 1999
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Formulaic Language: Distribution and historical change
Attributive Adjectives 6.2 Claim 2: Whether predicative or attributive, an
understanding of Japanese adjectives in everyday talk involves various facets of
fixedness Even impressionistically, Japanese adjective use seems to involve
much more ...
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The Development of Thinking and Reasoning
... represent the important relations that enabled solution of the goal. The role of
functional fixedness Another performance factor that Brown found could impede
children's ability to notice relational correspondences was 'functional fixedness'.
Pierre Barrouillet, Caroline Gauffroy, 2013
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The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs: Standardization and ...
These questions are still topical in modern language studies, and especially in
language teaching,2 but equally so in historical linguistics. Culpeper and Kyt0
admit that “[m]uch less work has been done on linguistic fixedness in early
English” ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIXEDNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
fixedness is used in the context of the following news items.
The Declaration of Independence and natural law
These laws, Goodrich observed, “may be considered as principles, in respect of their fixedness and operation,” and by knowing them, “we ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
What the Declaration of Independence Really Claimed
These laws, Goodrich observed, “may be considered as principles, in respect of their fixedness and operation,” and by knowing them, “we ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Warner's courage, character remembered | From the Editor
His features were regular, strongly marked and indicative of mental strength, a fixedness of purpose, and yet of much benevolent good nature.” ... «Green Mountain Outlook, Jun 15»
Moonbuilding 2703 AD
It stretches out to allow for breathability, eschewing any kind of fixedness or focal point. Just as stars become constellations, the album ... «Soundblab, Jun 15»
Seven Innovation Sins
Functional Fixedness means that consumers, brand managers and innovators automatically link a brand to a particular attribute. That is good ... «Innovation Excellence, Jun 15»
Destigmatizing the word spinster
She began to unravel my ideas about the fixedness of marriage. When I filled out my marriage licence application in the 1980s, I was directed ... «Toronto Star, May 15»
Jared Kushner on why real estate resists change
“The general theme is we look for people who don't have functional fixedness,” he said. There are two reasons to buy a building, he said. «The Real Deal Magazine, May 15»
Small kids spend too much time on tiny screens
Sadly, some toddlers are instead learning from their relationships to squander their youthful energy on sedentary screen-fixedness. «The Register-Guard, May 15»
Pittman tells stories with colour
This un-fixedness is rendered in other ways. For example, in “Hob,” which has two mummers at a table, parts of their bodies and disguises are ... «The Telegram, May 15»
How 'hipster spinsters' are redefining single life
If at first she is "bothered" by the idea that a woman must be desperate for marriage, she later finds "the fixedness of this belief not merely ... «The Australian Financial Review, Apr 15»
