Claudia wants to send a fragile vase to her parents for their anniversary,but she can't find any appropriate packing material in her house.She decides to pop some popcorn and use that to pack around the vase.What has Claudia done in this case

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Claudia has overcome functional fixedness by thinking outside the box and using popcorn to pack the vase, which is not a traditional packing material. Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias where individuals tend to see objects and tools only in their traditional or typical functions and fail to imagine alternative uses for them. Claudia's solution shows that she was able to overcome this bias and think creatively to solve her problem.

Claudia Wants to Send a Fragile Vase to Her Parents