Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used. It is the inability to realize that something known to have a particular use may also be used to perform other functions. When one is faced with a new problem, functional fixedness blocks one's ability to use old tools in novel ways.

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