MENTAL SETS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Assignment | Psychology
After studying Barriers to Reasoning Rationally (chapter 9) regarding mental sets in your textbook….
Write a reflective paper in which you identify how you handled or adjusted to mental sets in your personal life.
As one example, (which should not be used) students could consider the problem of making the adjustment from high school to college. How might a mental set (i.e., the tendency to approach or respond to a problem in a particular way) learned in high school interfere with the successful solution of problems later on in college.
DO NOT USE THIS EXAMPLE IN YOUR PAPER.
Students should specify how strategies that at one time were adaptive or successful could eventually become undesirable or maladaptive. (not useful or helpful).
You should show creativity and knowledge by using strategies, facts and principles discussed in this chapter that helped in the transition of your mental set and/or presented obstacles.
