Dictionary of Creativity
Preface
Table of Contents:
 A  B  C  D  E 
 F  G  H  I  K 
 L  M  N  O [P]
 R  S  T  U  V 
 Y  Z 
 Paradigm shift
 Passionarity
[Perceptual set]
 Performance
 Period of noncreativity
 Periods of creativity
 Personal traits
 Plank's principle
 Plenum
 Polar contrast
 Post-industrial society and creativity
 Price's law
 Primary process
 Psychedelic approach
 Psychodynamic approach
 Psychometric approach
References
Creativity Links



    

Perceptual set

(also mental set, functional fixedness). Predispositions to perceive things in certain (familiar) ways. It is one of the barriers to creativity; the reverse of flexile, innovative thinking which makes it difficult to see new meanings, relationships, and ideas.

Perceptual set. Dictionary of Creativity: Terms, Concepts, Theories & Findings in Creativity Research / Compiled and edited by Eugene Gorny. Netslova.ru, 2007.
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