A surgical team was operating in a rural hospital without a backup electrical generator when the power went out. To provide light for the surgery, they collected all the cellphones 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 showed flexibility in their thinking by avoiding functional fixedness, which is the tendency to only think of an object in its traditional use, and instead restructured their thinking to use the cellphones as a source of light. By doing so, they were able to solve the problem creatively and proceed with the surgery.

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