功能固着心理（Functional fixation psychology）.doc

功能固着心理（Functional fixation psychology） Back to the directory Previous page next page Functional mentality See a usual function or contact a person, it is difficult to see other new uses for it: if the first saw the function more important, it is difficult to see other uses for it. In a classroom teaching activity, the teacher took a candle, a pin, a box of matches, requiring students to use these three conditions, the candle lit, fixed on the vertical walls on the classroom. All the students thought for a long time, no one to come up with solutions to this problem. This is an interesting experiment, the way to solve this problem is very simple, only need to match lit candles, then pin up an empty matchbox fixed on the wall, and then put the candle wax stick in the match, this problem will be solved so easily. The reason why we couldnt figure out a way to solve the problem, the reason is that they solve the problem in the process of thinking, just as a match with a box of matches, but did not think it can also be used for fixing a candle. Function fixation phenomenon that we tend to use custom items, so as to prevent in new ways to use it to solve the problem. This reflected in fact is a kind of functional mentality. The so-called functional mentality, refers to see a routine things function or contact a person, it is difficult to see other functions and new connections: if the first saw function or contact more important, it is difficult to see other uses for it. We take an experiment of Hering and Hill for example, subjects were asked to stand behind the white line of a small house, the two rings placed vertically on the peg. He can walk in indoor free, use any items to help him solve the problem; but you are not allowed to take the ring pick up directly on the peg. There are two sticks in the room alone, with a reach hoop, with two sticks and ropes together can successfully solve the problem. For a group of subjects, the rope hanging on the wall of a nail, it does