Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that they can process at one time. George Miller argued that they can handle no more than seven, plus or minus two independent pieces of information at any given time. Thus, necessarily they must develop ways to simplify the task of processing the information that exists in their environment. They do this in many ways. One way is to select the stimuli that are most imp- tant in their lives, what are often called values. Another way is to chunk stimuli by linking them to each other, so they form bundles of stimuli that can be processed as if they are one entity. Generalized expectancies of what is linked with what are beliefs, and these beliefs are structured into bundles (see Triandis, 1972).
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag NY Inc.
ISBN-13
9781441918895
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104141847
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Author
Kwok Leung, Michael Harris Bond
Publication Name
Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms: Understanding Global Belief Systems
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
563g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
International and Cultural Psychology
Editor
Michael Harris Bond, Kwok Leung
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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