PSY320H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deferral
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Locked into predictable patterns of behaviour (psychological or overt) 2 modes of processing info: conceptual: perceptions of reality are automatically coloured/ tinted/filtered. Thus, more in line with habitual, prescribed reactions. Focal attention & awareness perceptual reactions filtration!!! (discriminative, conditioned by past experience, assimilation-based) Automatic channeling of our perceptions based on concepts, labels, ideas, opinions, expectations, judgments [attitudes] channel our perceptions. Extends time between noticing and reacting => reacting perceptually or cognitively/behaviourally => evaluating, la(cid:271)eli(cid:374)g, (cid:272)atego(cid:396)izi(cid:374)g, (cid:862)(cid:396)e(cid:272)og(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g(cid:863), et(cid:272). Definition: a receptive attention to and awareness of present events and experience. Ca(cid:374) p(cid:396)olo(cid:374)g i(cid:374)itial, (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:396)e(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ta(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith objective reality rather than channeling perceptual processes, filtering information => be more present in the current reality vs. reacting or habitually processing through conceptual filters. Aware of internal vs external occurrences as phenomena (not objects) Aware that attitudes are attitudes and not reality. Behaviour becomes less automatically prescribed => responsive to unfiltered reality.
