In the middle of the desert,the fan belt breaks in Rosario's car.Undaunted,she uses her nylons to replace it until she can get to a service station.Rosario has:
A) broken a mental set.
B) used the similarity heuristic.
C) inaccurately defined the problem.
D) broken a confirmation bias.

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Rosario has broken a mental set by using resources in an unconventional way to solve the problem of a broken fan belt. A mental set is a tendency to approach a problem in a particular way based on past experiences or assumptions. In this case, Rosario did not see the nylons as just an article of clothing, but as a potential solution to her problem.

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