Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper clip. What has he most likely overcome in applying his new use of the paper clip?
a) functional fixedness
b) stereotype suppression
c) the representative heuristic
d) the confirmation bias
ANS: A, Functional fixedness refers to getting mentally stuck in the idea that a particular object can only be used in one conventional way.
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