When Arya tries to hang her degree in her office,she realizes that she doesn't have a hammer to secure the nail to the wall.She thinks for a moment and then takes off her shoe and uses it to bang in the nail.Arya has overcome which cognitive obstacle?
A)confirmation bias
B)belief perseverance
C)a conjunction fallacy
D)functional fixedness

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Arya has overcome the cognitive obstacle of functional fixedness, which is the tendency to perceive an object as only serving its traditional function and inability to see it in a novel way. In this case, Arya could have been stuck thinking that her shoe was only meant for her foot, but instead, she thought creatively and used it to hammer the nail. A, B, and C are not relevant to the situation.

When Arya Tries to Hang Her Degree in Her Office,she