When a student is given two seemingly different problems to

solve, but the problems have the same underlying logical requirements, the student may miss this similarity due to the apparent differences in the wording of the questions. The relationship between two problems is called
A) salience of surface similarities.
B) mental sets.
C) functional fixedness.
D) parallel paradigms.

Answer: A

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