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 that 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 overcome functional fixedness, which is the cognitive bias that limits a person to see an object only in its traditional use, to come up with a creative and resourceful solution to her packing problem.

Monique Routinely Uses a Shredder to Shred Her Paper Mail