Monique routinely uses a shredder to shred her paper 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 remembers about the shredded junk mail confetti which she could use as packing material.From the above scenario,it can be concluded that 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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Monique was able to think outside the box and come up with an unconventional solution to her packing problem by using shredded paper instead of traditional Styrofoam packing material. This shows that she overcame functional fixedness, which is the tendency to think of objects only in terms of their typical functions.

Monique Routinely Uses a Shredder to Shred Her Paper Mail