Suppose that you have always prepared a casserole in a certain fashion. Then you buy a food processor. It would be most efficient to prepare the ingredients in a new order, but you follow your old, familiar order. The strategy that you are using is

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A mental set is a tendency to approach situations in a certain way because that method has worked in the past. In this scenario, continuing to prepare the casserole in the familiar order despite having a new tool that could make the process more efficient demonstrates reliance on a mental set.

Suppose That You Have Always Prepared a Casserole in a Certain