Verbal behavior and problem solving: Some effects of labeling in a functional fixedness problem.

Functional fixedness as related to problem solving: a repetition of three experiments.

Robert Adamson · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1952 · 252 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +8

The influence of strength of drive on functional fixedness and perceptual recognition.

Sam Glucksberg · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1962 · 192 citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology +13

Reasoning as an Associative Process: II. “Direction” in Problem Solving as a Function of Prior Reinforcement of Relevant Responses

Abe J. Judson, Charles N. Cofer, Sidney Gelfand · Psychological Reports · 1956 · 40 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +16

Verbal and Instrumental Response-Hierarchies and Their Relationship to Problem-Solving

Arthur W. Staats · The American Journal of Psychology · 1957 · 24 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +8

Functional fixedness: problem solution as a function of observing responses

Sam Glucksberg · Psychonomic Science · 1964 · 22 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Dynamical Systems +7