Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one. As she looks around her apartment, her gaze passes over a metal paper weight and som

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Martine needs a hammer but cannot find one. As she looks around her apartment, her gaze passes over a metal paper weight and som

e other objects that could potentially serve as a make shift hammer. However, she is so focused on these objects' typical uses that she does not think to use any of them as a hammer. Martine is experiencing which of the following?A. Fundamental Attribution Error.B. Functional Fixedness.C. Blindsight.D. Hawthorne Effect.E. Repression.

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ivolga24 [154] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-06T07:02:55+03:00

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Answer:

FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS

Explanation:

Martine is demonstrating an example functional fixedness, a cognitive bias that constrains a person to use an object only in the original function it was intended.