COMN 2111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Herbert Mead
11 Apr 2016
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Her observable data is the brother and his girlfriends are in the room, girlfriend crying, brother looks irritated work all over the place. Based on the data she selected, she makes the assumpion that her brother has done something wrong. Her conclusion is that her brother made ally cry because he is mean. This reinforces her belief that all men are mean causing her emoions to escalate, which she takes out on her brother. While in the belief stage of her inference ladder, she carefully selects other data to coninue to reinforce her beliefs. Thus, she falls into the trap of the two recursive loops within the inference ladder of from beliefs to selected data and acions to observable data. Jessica chooses to pay atenion to the imes when women were upset in dave"s room and she reminds him that this is not the irst ime.
