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.

Question

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Monique had previously only associated the shredder with getting rid of junk mail, but she was able to think outside the box and come up with a new use for the shredded paper. This is an example of overcoming functional fixedness.

Monique Routinely Uses a Shredder to Shred Her Junk Mail