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How Does The Mind Decide What To Think?

How Does The Mind Decide What To Think?. How Does The Mind Decide What To Think?. And What Can You Do About It?. Prime Directives Of The Human Mind. Do What’s Necessary to Learn the Truth. Do What’s Necessary to Learn the Truth. Sucking on Elbows, Walking into Walls

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How Does The Mind Decide What To Think?

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  1. How Does The Mind Decide What To Think?

  2. How Does The Mind Decide What To Think? And What Can You Do About It?

  3. Prime Directives Of The Human Mind

  4. Do What’s Necessary to Learn the Truth

  5. Do What’s Necessary to Learn the Truth • Sucking on Elbows, Walking into Walls • Law of Effect (Real and Vicarious) • Freud: Reality Principle • Piaget: Internal & External Push Toward Truth • Evolutionary Psychology (What if we didn’t have the imperative to Learn the Truth?)

  6. Do What’s Necessary to Learn the Truth • Sucking on Elbows, Walking into Walls • Law of Effect (Real and Vicarious) • Freud: Reality Principle • Piaget: Internal & External Push Toward Truth • Evolutionary Psychology (What if we didn’t have the imperative to Learn the Truth?)

  7. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TOAVOID INFORMATION OVERLOAD

  8. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TOAVOID INFORMATION OVERLOAD • Gestalt Principle: Mind Molds Simplicity • Limitations Working Memory  De-selection for processing Retrieval  Lost Links • Heuristics Decision Rules (E.G., Shopping For Detergent) Sacrifice Best For Good-Enough Stereotyping • Cognitive Biases FAE – Fundamental Attribution Error Cognitive Consistency Mere Exposure Early (Implicit) Conditioning  Schemas and Scripts

  9. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TOAVOID INFORMATION OVERLOAD • Gestalt Principle: Mind Molds Simplicity • Limitations Working Memory  De-selection for processing Retrieval  Lost Links • Heuristics Decision Rules (E.G., Shopping For Detergent) Sacrifice Best For Good-Enough Stereotyping • Cognitive Biases FAE – Fundamental Attribution Error Cognitive Consistency Mere Exposure Early (Implicit) Conditioning  Schemas and Scripts

  10. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FEEL GOOD AND NOT FEEL BAD

  11. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FEEL GOOD AND NOT FEEL BAD • Freud: Pleasure Principle • Rogers: OrganismicIntrojected Values  Mature Values • Self-Serving Bias Lake Wobegone Effect Downward Vs. Upward Social Comparison Attributional Style (Optimistic Vs. Depressive) Internal Vs. External Attrib Stable Vs. Unstable Global Vs. Specific • Rationalization vs. Rational Thinking

  12. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FEEL GOOD AND NOT FEEL BAD • Freud: Pleasure Principle • Rogers: OrganismicIntrojected Values  Mature Values • Self-Serving Bias Lake Wobegone Effect Downward Vs. Upward Social Comparison Attributional Style (Optimistic Vs. Depressive) Internal Vs. External Attrib Stable Vs. Unstable Global Vs. Specific • Rationalization vs. Rational Thinking

  13. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FIND (OR MAKE) MEANING AND VALUE

  14. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FIND (OR MAKE) MEANING AND VALUE • Effectance(Why did Mark keep swearing at his dad?) • Effort Justification • Transcendence Terror Management Theory Frankl: (Who Survived The Camps) • Tragedy Paradox (e.g., child’s illness)

  15. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO FIND (OR MAKE) MEANING AND VALUE • Effectance(Why did Mark keep swearing at his dad?) • Effort Justification • Transcendence Terror Management Theory Frankl: (Who Survived The Camps) • Tragedy Paradox (e.g., child’s illness)

  16. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN SELF-INTEGRITY

  17. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN SELF-INTEGRITY • Davis Jr.: “I gotta be me.” • Leymore: Bi-Polarities (Good/Bad; Self/Other; Us/Foreign) • Anecdote: Integration of South Boston High • Anecdote: Sarah Lampert’s Son Caught Acting Stupid • Autonomy/Reactance • Ginott / Brickman: Persuasion Vs. Attribution • Steve Piano Composition Model (My Doodles vs. Alien Doodles)

  18. DO WHAT’S NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN SELF-INTEGRITY • Davis Jr.: “I gotta be me.” • Leymore: Bi-Polarities (Good/Bad; Self/Other; Us/Foreign) • Anecdote: Integration of South Boston High • Anecdote: Sarah Lampert’s Son Caught Acting Stupid • Autonomy/Reactance • Ginott / Brickman: Persuasion Vs. Attribution • Steve Piano Composition Model (My Doodles vs. Alien Doodles)

  19. How Does The Mind Decide What To Think? And What Can You Do About It?

  20. And What Can You Do About It? • How much truth do I need? • How mindful can I afford to be? • Central vs. Peripheral Route to Persuasion • Central vs. Peripheral Route to SELF-Persuasion • Groupthink • Intra-psychic Groupthink

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