Monique Routinely Uses a Shredder to Shred Her Junk Mail

question 41

Multiple Choice

Monique routinely uses a shredder to shred her junk mail into confetti-sized pieces of paper,which she then just throws away.When packing her glassware to move into a new apartment,she runs out of protective styrofoam packing material.Suddenly Monique gets the idea to empty her shredder and 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) used subgoaling to obtain the appropriate packing materials

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