Paper clip-functional fixedness

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Riley has figured out how to unlock his bedroom door with a paper clip. What has he most likely overcome in his new use of the paper clip

a) functional fixedness

b) incubation

c) the confirmation bias

d) the representational problem

e) the representative heuristic.

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