The process of coming to a conclusion or making a judgment without conscious awareness of the thought processes involved is called:
A) functional fixedness.
B) a mental set.
C) intuition.
D) prototypical thinking.

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Intuition is the process of coming to a conclusion without conscious awareness of the thought processes involved. Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias where individuals have difficulty seeing a problem from a fresh perspective. A mental set is a tendency to approach problems in the same way as they have been approached in the past. Prototypical thinking refers to using a typical example or representative image to represent a certain concept or category. Although all these terms refer to cognitive processes, intuition specifically refers to the ability to come to a conclusion without conscious reasoning.

The Process of Coming to a Conclusion or Making a Judgment