Sentence examples for mental sets from inspiring English sources

The results revealed five factors of creative mental sets: curiosity, minutiae, inquiry, sensitivity, and courage.

This paper reports on the relationships between creative mental sets and rule-violating actions using questionnaires answered by 218 nursing workers.

Figure 5Ddepicts that the correlated activity of the VPFC and amygdala was significantly stronger than the correlated activity of the DLPFC and amygdala, corresponding to mental sets of eyes closed and open, respectively (z score = 7.99, p<0.001).

The present findings raise the question whether recreational cocaine users also show impairments in other cognitive control functions, such as the shifting between tasks and mental sets, and the updating and monitoring of working memory [30].

Set shifting refers to an individuals ability to go back and forth between multiple tasks or mental sets [ 25].

Miyake and colleagues [ 55] showed that inhibiting of prepotent responses, updating working memory representations and shifting between tasks or mental sets are three separable executive functions.

Some of the more common obstacles, or blocks, are mental set, functional fixedness, stereotypes, and negative transfer.

A mental set, or "entrenchment," is a frame of mind involving a model that represents a problem, a problem context, or a procedure for problem solving.

The error appears to arise within the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord); this may result from competing sensory information, psychologically meaningful distorting influences, or previous expectations (mental set).

When problem solvers have an entrenched mental set, they fixate on a strategy that normally works well but does not provide an effective solution to the particular problem at hand.

Pain catastrophizing refers to a negative mental set brought to bear during the experience of pain.