Therefore, it is often necessary for people to move beyond their mental sets in order to find solutions.

Nothing could be better calculated to produce mental sets or 'Einstellungen'.

The experiment shines light on how mental sets can hinder the solving of novel problems.

He thought that teachers should consider the students existing mental sets, what they already know, when presenting new information or material.

"It's all a mental set, of course," he went on softly.

A mental set is a framework for thinking about a problem.

An inappropriate mental set can hamper the solution of straightforward problems.

People who interpret the statement with this mental set will miss the fact that survivors would not need to be buried.

He stated, "The fact of mental set is primary in all conscious activity.

Instead, his was "a deep-going revolution destined to change the mental set" of art.