The likelihood of functional fixedness occurring may be influenced by culture and it is

The likelihood of functional fixedness occurring may be influenced by culture and it is experienced with industrial and preindustrial countries alike. Function fixedness is defined as a cognitive bias liming a person or an object to use or do something in the traditional sense of use. This way of thinking was derived in Gestalt psychology which puts a lot of emphasizes on holistic (characterizing a person as a whole) processing.