A surgical team was operating in a rural hospital without a backup electrical generator.The power went out.To provide light for the surgery,they collected all the cell phones in the hospital and turned them on.The operation was able to proceed because the surgical team avoided _____ and _____ the problem.
A) functional fixedness; restructured
B) mental sets; correctly analyzed
C) affective forecasting; gained insight into
D) the availability heuristic; reframed

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The surgical team was able to think creatively and outside of the box by overcoming functional fixedness (the tendency to use familiar objects only in their usual way) and restructuring their approach to use the cell phones for light.

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