Darin cheers at a football game when his hometown team scores, and his Dad gives him a high five. Darin later begins cheering wi
th his Dad at basketball, baseball, and hockey games when his hometown teams score. This is an example of Darin’s cheering behavior ____________ to other situations.
We all have a generalization system that operates as an autopilot, allowing us to be fast and consistent with our own identity. Thanks to these we package and label all the information with which we are bombed every second, to immediately think and act.
Otherwise, if we pay attention to each data individually, however tiny, every minute of our lives would become an exhausting and extremely slow process of analyzing and digesting, leaving us so overloaded to the point of collapse and not being able to function more mentally.
