The professor wrote on Quan's paper,"I am impressed with your creative thinking on this issue." Quan was most likely demonstrating:
A) functional fixedness
B) the creation of average characteristics of an object
C) flexibility in thinking and reorganization in understanding
D) the use of rules called algorithms

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The professor's comment indicates that Quan showed creative thinking, which is often associated with being flexible in one's thinking and being able to reorganize one's understanding of a problem or issue. This type of thinking is the opposite of functional fixedness (A), which refers to being stuck on a particular use for an object and not being able to see its potential for other uses. Quan's paper also does not suggest that he created average characteristics of an object (B) or used algorithms (D).

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