One day at work, Pauline's earing fell on the floor and she was unable to find the back. To keep from losing her earing, Pauline reinserted it and used part of a pencil eraser to keep the earing in place

Using a pencil eraser as a temporary earing back showed that Pauline overcame
a. a mental set.
b. functional fixedness.
c. confirmation bias.
d. transformation bias.


b

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