Monique Routinely Uses a Shredder to Shred Her Junk Mail

question 108

Multiple Choice

Monique routinely uses a shredder to shred her junk mail into confetti-sized pieces of paper. When packing her glassware to move into a new apartment, she runs out of protective styrofoam packing material. Suddenly, Monique gets the idea to use the shredded junk mail confetti for packing material. Monique has

• A) overcome functional fixedness.
• B) used a heuristic to solve her packing problem.
• C) used an algorithm to solve her packing problem.
• D) demonstrated object fixation.

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