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.
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.
