- (E) Our tendency to approach problems in ways that have been successful for us in the past is
known as mental set. Proactive interference is when something we learned first interferes with our
ability to remember something we learned later. Functional fixedness is the tendency to overlook
novel uses for items we are accustomed to using in a particular way. Belief bias is when people’s
preexisting beliefs interfere with their logical reasoning. Framing is the finding that the way in
which the same information is presented can impact the way we perceive it.
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