True, but in the case that a small child or animal was trapped under that panel your priorities would change significantly. That's actually a pretty strong argu

True, but in the case that a small child or animal was trapped under that panel your priorities would change significantly. That's actually a pretty strong argument for many of the "functional fixedness tests" to be invalid, because they don't account for peoples' priorities. For example, with the tack box in the candle problem, I think people don't empty the box because they don't want to scatter the tacks all over everything, so it's not really testing functional fixedness but rather peoples' willingness to break something to accomplish their goals.