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Mental Set
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A mental set is the tendency to approach a problem with a strategy that worked before, even when a simpler one is available.
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Solvers who learn a long formula keep using it on later problems solvable in one step.
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Mental set is what expertise is made of. The same mechanism produces reliability and rigidity.