Maham forgot to bring a pillow on the camping trip, so she spent a very uncomfortable and restless night. Unfortunately, she never thought of using her down-filed jacket as a pillow. Maham's oversight best illustrates:
Correct answer: A. functional fixedness
- A. functional fixedness
- B. confirmation bias
- C. overconfidence
- D. the availability heuristic
Explanation
Functional fixedness is the tendency to see an object only in its usual role, so Maham failed to recognize that a jacket could serve as a pillow. The other options concern biased judgment rather than failure to use an object creatively.
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