Question

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. In this case, Monique has:_______.

Answer 1

overcome functional fixedness.

Step-by-step explanation:

Okay, let us get some points in this question. We are given that Monique always throw away her shredded junk mails but their was a scenario that occured that gave her the thought of using the what she used in shredding junk mails that she often throw away to pack her materials. Monique use of the shredder (used in shredding junk mail into confetti) for packing material is not the normal use of the shredder. Monique using it for packing materials has made her to overcome a term known as the functional fixedness(that is the way the things was used naturally or meant to be used).

Answer 2

overcome functional fixedness

Step-by-step explanation:

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. In this case, Monique has overcome functional fixedness. Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that makes people limit the use of a thing or object to the traditional use for which it was made.

Monique was fixed on using the shredder for the traditional purpose for which it was made and throwing away the junk mails, which is for shredding junk mails. However, her decision to deviate from the traditional usage of the shredder and instead using the shredded papers for packing shows that she has overcome functional fixedness with regards to the use of a shredder.