After studying Barriers to Reasoning Rationally(chapter 9) regarding mental sets in yourtextbook….
Write a reflective paper in which you identify how you handledor adjusted to mental sets in your personal life.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â
As one example, (which should not be used)students could consider the problem of making the adjustment fromhigh school to college.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â How might a mental set (i.e.,the tendency to approach or respond to a problem in a particularway) learned in high school interfere with the successful solutionof problems later on in college.
