Cary is on her way to an important meeting. She notices that the hem of her pants has come loose on one side. She looks in her desk drawer for a sewing kit. She moves her stapler and her tape out of the way but still can’t find the sewing kit. She decides to go to the meeting with her pants hem hanging down. Cary’s failure to see the tape and/or stapler as possible tools for fixing her pants
indicates she may be showing:
A. the sunk cost effect.
B. functional fixedness.
C. belief bias.
D. the conjunction fallacy.
E. syllogistic reasoning.
B. functional fixedness.
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